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   %RESPECT RESPONSE COERCION VIOLENCE MANIPULATION+950722
    %DISHONEST ADDICT COLLUSION EVIL ALIENATION SIN+950722
    %WAR TERRORISTS MILITARISTS CRIMINALS LEGALISTS+950722
   %ARMS RACE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BOMBS MISSILES DEFEND 950722

     One  of our primary dilemmas is to  find  integrative
ways  to agree upon what kinds of responses are worthy  of
respect  and  support---especially when we are  confronted
with people who are:

     COERCIVE            VIOLENT          MANIPULATIVE

     DISHONEST           ADDICTIVE        COLLUSIVE

     ALIENATIVE          EXCLUSIVE        ARROGANT

     RUDE                DECEPTIVE        SECRETIVE

     SELF-RIGHTEOUS      DEMANDING        PRETENTIOUS

     COMBATIVE          DEFENSIVE        OFFENSIVE

     If  we  are  not  careful,   our  responses  to  such
disintegrative behaviors are  echoes of the disintegrative
behaviors---and  we  are  likely to fall into the trap  of
respecting and supporting those people who respond to such
disintegrative  behaviors in ways which are echoes of  the
disintegrative behaviors.

     To echo disintegrative behaviors with  disintegrative
behaviors---is to  surrender to the people who  engage  in
disintegrative  behaviors!     By  engaging in  such  echo
behaviors we become controlled by the people who engage in
disintegrative behaviors---and both we and our communities
disintegrate.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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