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       %LOYALTY GROUP TEAMWORK TRIBE NATIONAL STATE+940716
        %INSTINCT EVOLUTION SURVIVE WHOLE CONFLICTS 940716

     The instinct for loyalty to one's own tribe,   group,
team, state and nation may exist for evolutionary reasons.
Animals which band together in self-defense,  for purposes
of  hunting  or  other  cooperative  endeavors,   are more
likely  to survive than are animals which have   instincts
for  highly  individualistic behavior  patterns.    Tribal
instincts  are  not rational.   Behaviors which flow  from
tribal  instincts are not likely to change in response  to
rational  processes,   especially  if  the  behaviors  are
themselves a-rational, irrational or anti-rational.

     Collusive  and organizational addictive behaviors are
a-rational,     irrational and/or anti-rational---and  may
be motivated by tribal instincts.  Purely rational
responses to  collusive  and  addictive behaviors  are not
likely to be as effective as responses which recognize the
possibilities  of  tribal  instincts  playing  a  role  in
encouraging  dysfunctional  patterns  of behavior  through
instinctive  loyalty  to  a  group  when  the  loyalty  is
dysfunctional.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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