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%GOOD IDEALS VALUES ALIENATIVE EXCLUSIVE EVIL MEANS+960302
  %DISINTEGRATION REJECTION JUDGMENTAL CONDEMNATION 960302

     Good ideals,  values,  and goals lead to personal and
communal  disintegration---if they are not  combined  with
ultimate commitments to promote both personal and communal
integrity;   and so to ultimate commitments  to avoid  the
use of coercive means which lead to exclusivity, legalism,
judgmentalism,     condemnations,    excommunications, and
alienations---which  lead  in  turn   to   evil   personal
relationships; i.e., disintegration.

     In  the absence of ultimate commitments  to  personal
and communal integrity;  and to means  appropriate to such
commitment---ultimate  commitments  to  other  ideals  and
values lead to the use of alienative means which undermine
personal  and communal integrity.   Then all other  ideals
and values are meaningless!    Ultimate commitments  which
lead  to  personal  and communal  disintegration  are  not
worthy of respect or support under any conditions.

     Some  people  may  be alienated  when  the  truth  is
charitably spoken about them in honest descriptions of the
natural  consequences of how they  seek to fulfill   their
ultimate:  commitments, ideals, values, attitudes, beliefs
and dogmas---in alienative  ways.   Integrative people who
are   ultimately  committed  to  promoting  personal   and
communal integrity naturally speak the truth charitably in
describing the alienative consequences of how other people
seek to fulfill their commitments.    Such  communications
are not coercive, violent,  mean,  or manipulative.   Such
communications  are  descriptive---seeking   to  point  to
truths  which   are  essential  to personal  and  communal
integrity.     There are many  people who seek to  repress
such  truths---people  who are  at minimum embarrassed  by
those who speak such truths.   Such embarrassed people are
more responsible for their own embarrassment, than are the
integrative  people  who  speak the  truth  charitably  in
efforts  to promote personal and communal integrity.    We
need  to be clear about where the responsibility lies  for
the embarrassment.  It lies with those who seek to conceal
the truth,   not with those who speak the truth charitably
to promote integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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