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     Some people feel  very  strongly  that they have been
given  an  ultimate duty to contend with evil  people  and
powers.   Such people perceive themselves to be  essential
defenders   of   goodness,    purity,    virtue,    honor,
respectability and proper appearances.    They  are  often
deadly  serious in their dedication to fulfill their  duty
to contend successfully with all the evil threats that the
perceive  around  them---which is often more  than  others
perceive around them.

     Contentious people often seem to be who and what they
are out of a sense  of  duty---as  well  as due to general
personality traits and attitudes.  It is usually futile to
assign clear  causes to their faults and  effects.    They
rarely wear their dutiful vestments gracefully; i.e., with
true love.   Often they have not been familiar  with  true
love---being  far more familiar with duties,  disciplines,
rewards, punishments, judgements,  condemnations,  reject-
ions and excommunications.

     Contentious people are not  who and what they are for
purely logical reasons.   Thus  logic is not the key which
w ill set them free to become peacemakers and facilitators
of conflict resolution.    Logic and reasoning are not  by
themselves the  tools  which will enable  us to deal  with
contentious people.   Logic and  reasoning are tools which
cooperative  people  can  use together to  achieve  common
goals---but they are not tools  which  contentious  people
are  likely  to  respect and  use  to  come  to  agreement
regarding appropriate common goals; for contentious people
have no desire  to  agree upon   common  goals.   Dilemmas
associated  with  contentious  people are  dilemmas,   not
technical  problems.  Tools which  are useful  in  solving
technical problems  are often  of no use in dealing with a
non-technical  dilemma.  It is of the essence of a dilemma
that  it is non-technical.  It is redundant to  say  "non-
technical  dilemma"  just as it is  redundant  to say "wet
water".   Yet often people  deal with dilemmas as if  they
are technical problems.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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