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  %DISTINGUISH UNREAL CRIMES ANXIOUS FEARFUL PEOPLE+961116
 %DISINTEGRATIVE ALIENATIVE JUDGMENTAL CONDEMNATION 961116

     How  are  we to distinguish between real  crimes  and
what  anxious  people who are preoccupied with  issues  of
control regard as crimes?

     Here  we  include  as real crimes such acts  such  as
murder,   physical assault,  robbery,  extortion and rape.
They entail coercion,  physical violence,  dishonesty  and
lack  of  respect  for  the integrity of  victim  and  the
victim's community.

     Many  people  who are defensive and  insecure  regard
other  people's failures to conform in prescribed ways  as
criminal  in some informal sense.   They see  real  crimes
primarily as failures to conform in prescribed  ways---and
so  see many other failures to conform in prescribed  ways
as criminal in nature,   even if not  formally  defined as
crimes.   They find it hard to see any distinction between
crimes which entail coercion and violence which inevitably
undermine  personal   and   communal  integrity---and non-
conformity  which  does  not  entail coercion and violence
which   inevitably   undermine   personal   and   communal
integrity.     Such  insecure  people find many  forms  of
creative  non-conformity to be threatening and regard many
such forms as "criminal" in some sense.

     We  need to be careful not to regard "non-conformity"
as   grounds   for  passing  judgment  and   engaging   in
condemnations.    It is true that many criminal  behaviors
which  undermine  personal and communal  integrity  entail
non-conformity.  What makes such behaviors criminal is not
the non-conformity which is entailed.  It is the coercion,
violence,   dishonesty,   deception,  and  undermining  of
personal and communal integrities which make the behaviors
criminal.

     If  we  look  behind the behavior of people  who  are
defensive  and insecure in regards to the informal "crimes
of  non-conformity"  we may find that they are  protecting
their  collusive games of mutual self deception and  their
deceptions  of others.   They may themselves be  seriously
undermining  the personal integrity and communal integrity
of  those people who are the  victims  of  their  attempts
to   enforce  conformity through  the  use  of   coercion,
violence,  punishment, judgementalism, and condemnations.

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