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    %TEMPTATION CONTROL REPRESS PREVENT AVOID DEVIL+941225
   %DISCIPLINE CRIME ADDICTION TERRORIST MURDER SIN+941225
    %ALIENATE ESTRANGE EXCOMMUNICATE ISOLATE PUNISH+941225
   %IMPRISON SENTENCE JUDGEMENT DAMN REJECT EXCLUDE 941225

     When  we are confronted by evil,  crime,   addiction,
terrorists, murder, robbers,  manipulators and other forms
of  violent  behaviors---it is tempting to try to  control
those  behaviors  through  rejections,   excommunications,
exclusions,     judgments,     sentences,     punishments,
imprisonments,   damnations,   disciplines,   repressions,
isolation and their like.   Such temptations often lead us
to compound the tragic situations which confront us.    We
are  tempted to respond to evil behaviors with  additional
evil behaviors.

     Evil  behaviors are alienative---flow from alienation
due to previous evil behaviors.

     Evil behaviors often entail attempts to be in control
through  manipulative  efforts---and flow  from  rebellion
against previous such attempts by others to be in  control
through manipulative efforts.

     Evil    behaviors    are   symptoms    of    previous
manipulations,  violence,  rejections,   excommunications,
exclusions,  judgmentalism,  damnations,  repression,  and
isolation---which   have  been  suffered  by  people   who
consequently lack the requisite knowledge,  skills,  power
and  desire  to  help  communities  to  resolve  conflicts
through  forgiveness,   reconciliation,  honest  and  open
dialogue,  and win-win strategies for GETTING PAST NO  and
so GETTING TO YES.

     If we  yield  to the temptation to  respond  to  evil
behaviors in alienative ways, we thereby contribute to the
exponential  growth  of evil---and so to  the  exponential
decay of personal and communal integrity.  The only way to
overcome the alienation of evil behaviors is to respond to
them   in  ways  which  promote  the   possibilities   of:
forgiveness, reconciliation, conflict resolution, open and
honest dialogue;  and so promote true security enjoyed as
the   freedom   to  be  safely  vulnerable   in   intimate
relationships.     Such   responses  contribute   to   the
exponential  growth of personal and communal  integrity---
the  balm which promotes healing and the transcendence  of
evil in all its terrifying forms.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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