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%WHO ENEMY TRAITOR GUILTY SHAMEFUL DAMMED EVIL SIN+970415
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Often people are preoccupied with the questions such
as:
Who is the enemy?
Who is guilty?
Who is at fault?
Who is evil?
Who is good?
Who is dammed?
Who is saved?
Preoccupations with such questions lead naturally to
misunderstanding, suspicion, alienation, conflict and
violence between opposing groups of people who answer the
questions in contradictory ways.
Such questions are often answered in dichotomous ways
which split people into two opposing groups. The groups
cannot tolerate each other because each other's presence
is perceived as a threat to their own security. Each
group's security is based upon its unquestioned belief in
the ultimate virtue of their own way of framing and
answering what they regard as the key questions of life.
The other group's presence threatens that unquestioned
belief by asking different questions and/or answering the
same questions in different ways.
Opposing groups are bound to degenerate into
unresolved conflicts and violence if they:
1. Are seeking to be superior to other inferior
peoples.
2. Are prone to unbalanced preoccupations and
exclusivity.
3. Defensive because they feel insecure/vulnerable.
4. Are not seeking both personal and communal
integrity.
5. Are not committed to being true to themselves and
others in open and honest dialogue.
6. Respect deception and dishonesty as acceptable
means to achieve "good" ends.
7. Respect coercion, controls and violence as means
to force people to behave "properly".
The nature of what people focus their attention upon
with great concern plays a major role in leading them
towards or away from personal and communal integrity. If
people have little concern for personal and communal
integrity, they are unlikely to enjoy personal and
communal integrity. If people are greatly concerned with
conflict, they are likely to be engaged in great
conflicts.
If people are determined to be better than other
people and so in control in high places, they are likely
to drag people down into the gutters of life.
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