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%CONFORM PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY COERCE VIOLATE 961004

     Communities and persons who are coercive in trying to
promote  conformity  are bound to undermine  communal  and
personal   integrity.    Coerced  conformity  bottles   up
creativity,        integrative     insights,       honest,
dialogue,  learning skills,  conflict resolution,   anger,
and resentment; and encourages people to seek revenge.

     The  greater is the disparity in power between  those
seeking  to enforce conformity and those who are prone not
to  conform---the  more  likely  that  there  will  be  an
explosion.     The less that the power-less have to  lose,
the  more  likely  they are to  respond  to violence  with
increased  violence.    The more  that  the power-full are
power-full---the more prone that they  are (1)    to   use
their  power  in  violent  ways  in   efforts   to  impose
conformity,  (2)   the more that they have to lose if they
fail, (3) and the more likely that they are to fail.

     Wise  power-full people know that coercion will  come
back  to haunt them.   Wise power-full people know that it
is in their interest to engage in true conflict resolution
with  people  who  are less  power-full  than  themselves.
Personal and communal integrity are threatened by each and
every  effort  to use power to impose conformity upon  the
power-less.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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