This is http://www.essayz.com/a9612241.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATIVE RULES COMMANDS PROHIBIT LAWS TABOO+961224 %ARBITRARY CAPRICIOUS PREJUDICIAL FRIVOLOUS FORBID+961224 %ISSUES CONTROL ADDICTIVE CODEPENDENT EVIL SIN 961224 It is often difficult to ascertain whether particular rules, regulations, laws, prescriptions, proscriptions and their like are integrative or disintegrative because of: 1. The motives of those who originated them. 2. The motives of those who rebel against them. 3. How they are drawn up and promulgated. 4. How those who violate them are treated. 5. How those who enforce them view themselves. 6. The mythology surrounding them. 7. The paradigm out of which they originated. 8. How they speak to pragmatic considerations. 9. How they are treated as worthy of worship. 10. Failures to update them to modern circumstances. 11. Class conflicts between those embroiled by them. 12. Misunderstandings between those embroiled. 13. Conflicting high ideals, values & principles. 14. Collusive games of mutual self deception. 15. Striving for impossible levels of perfection. 16. Physical, psychological and spiritual injuries. 17. Hereditary and circumstantial disabilities. 18. Ignorance, prejudice and confusion. 19. Dishonesty about mistakes, blunders and failures. 20. Refusals to deal realistically with limitations. Failures to be willing to explore the implications of the above often lead to tragic consequences. We need to seek to learn from such tragedies. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================