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      %OWNERSHIP CANNOT CONTROL PERSON RELATIONSHIP 960713

     Perverse  and tragic events follow from people trying
to own what cannot be owned and controlled with integrity.

     Simple  inanimate  objects of limited extent  can  be
owned  and  controlled  to  some  extent.    They  can  be
understood,   manipulated and controlled in objective ways
which are in keeping with their objective natures.

     Animate  creatures  including people cannot be  owned
and controlled just as  can  inanimate  objects of limited
extent.   Animate creatures including people  have  wills,
desires, perceptions, and responses of their own which are
not fulfilled by  them  being  owned  and   controlled  by
manipulative people.


     A  manipulative  person may try to  own  and  control
another person.   A manipulative person may try to own and
control a relationship between self and another person; or
between two persons other than self.   Human relationships
are  not  objective things of limited  extent.       Human
relationships extend into the will-full community in  ways
which  are  often not known or understood;  and  so  human
relationships extend into the community in ways which  are
beyond human ownership and control.

     A  foolish  manipulative  person may try to  own  and
control a community;  a  pattern of human relationships of
great  extent.    The more extensive and will-full is  the
community  which a manipulative person tries  to  control;
the more foolish is the manipulative person, and the  more
likely  such a person is to engender  tragic  consequences
which are not clearly perceived, and which are not clearly
understood.

     We  are fools if we join in the foolish  manipulative
ways of people who try to own and control that which  they
cannot own or control.   Yet, often people do join in such
foolish manipulative  ways---by trying to own  and control
such foolish manipulative people.

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