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     Often  human  efforts  fail  to  have  the   expected
consequences;  and in fact the results of our efforts  are
often  perversely  contrary  to  our  desired,    planned,
designed and predicted ones.

     Suppose a person confronted by a fire put a liquid on
the fire in the firm conviction that the liquid was water-
--when  in  fact  it  was  kerosene.    Suppose  the  firm
conviction  blinded the person to the consequences and the
person in  desperation poured more and more of the "water"
on  the fire,  in spite of the evidence  that the expected
consequences did not follow.  Such behavior would be  much
like human  behavior  in  the  face  of the disintegrative
consequences  which  follow  from  many human  efforts  to
CONTROL other people's:

     ATTITUDES           PERCEPTIONS         EXPERIENCES

     BELIEFS             DESIRES             EMOTIONS

     EXPRESSIONS         RELATIONSHIPS       VISIONS

     INTENTIONS          EXPECTATIONS        BEHAVIORS

     With "good" intentions some people try to use ethical
codes of conduct, moral injunctions, taboos, prohibitions,
prescriptions,     commandments   and   their    like---in
combination  with   threats,   coercions,   manipulations,
violence,    punishments,   ridicule,    excommunications,
banishments and their like---TO TRY TO CONTROL WHAT CANNOT
BE CONTROLLED. The consequences of  such well intended but
dishonest behaviors almost  always involve disintegration,
alienation,  estrangement,  misunderstanding,  resentment,
anger and/or revenge.

     We need to recognize,  name,  describe and talk about
perversions of "goodness",  ethics,  morality,  religions,
philosophy,  and professional guidelines---which  engender
both personal and communal disintegration.

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