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%KINDS OF COERCIVE VIOLENCE DISINTEGRATION LOVE 970913
There are many different kinds of integrity:
Personal Integrity Communal Integrity
Psychological Integrity Spiritual Integrity
Professional Integrity Political Integrity
Scientific Integrity Educational Integrity
Spiritual Integrity Sexual Integrity
Marital Integrity Religious Integrity
Physical Integrity Ideological Integrity
Value Integrity Logical Integrity
Associated with each kind of integrity there is the
possibility of a corresponding kind of coercion, violence
and disintegration --- possibilities which all to often
are fulfilled within disintegrative human relationships.
Each kind of coercion and violence leads to the
corresponding kind of disintegration within human
relationships.
Each kind of disintegration within human
relationships constitutes a threat to the various other
kinds of integrity within human relationships. They are
all intricately inter-related in the fabric of life.
Personal integrity is essential to communal
integrity. Communal integrity is essential to personal
integrity. Being indifferent to any one kind of integrity
is a threat to all kinds of integrity. Attempting to
advance one kind of integrity at the expense of another
kind of integrity is a threat to all kinds of integrity.
Dishonesty does violence to cognitive, logical,
rational and relational integrity --- and so threatens all
other kinds of integrity. The use of dishonesty, and
tolerance of the use of dishonesty as a manipulative tool,
both threatens all kinds of integrity with tragic
consequences to all persons involved/affected.
Dishonesty undermines integrity in reflexive ways.
The person(s) who initiate dishonest relationships become
the victims of the disintegration which they initiate ---
for the chain of disintegrative processes continues until
abated by Love which is truly integrative in honest ways.
Integrative role models are persons of integrity who
work to build communities of integrity.
When integrative role models are freely admired and
emulated in the absence of coercion and violence ---
healthy people and communities grow in integrity. In such
situations creative persons invent new ways to be true to
themselves and each other in integrative ways. They do not
conform themselves due to coercion, violence or the
imposition of powerful demands from outside of themselves.
The imposition of powerful demands from "outside-in"
attempts to force people to conform --- usually engender
resentment, alienation, anger, rebellion --- and so
engender personal and communal disintegration. This is
true even when there are no longer any present external
demands --- but introjected demands continue to operate
internally through self disciplines which are coercive
echoes of former external demands.
We cannot be persons of integrity if we regularly
ignore our own experiences and desires and/or ignore the
experiences and desires of other persons. If external
demands, rules, and regulations dominate to the extent
that we regularly ignore our own and others' experiences
and desires --- we disintegrate through dishonesty about
what is unique about us and them.
For the above reasons, conformity is not the key to
personal and communal integrity. Conformity inhibits
creativity and honesty whenever conformity comes through
coercion and violence. When creativity and honesty are
inhibited it is impossible to respond wisely to new
situations, circumstances and contexts. The cosmos is
full of change, and to be people and communities of
integrity we must respond in changing ways to changing
situations, circumstances and contexts.
Personal and communal integrity depend upon the
integrity of our personal RELATIONSHIPS. Coercion,
violence and dishonesty undermine the integrity of our
personal RELATIONSHIPS --- because all three of them
inhibit open and honest dialogue which is the essence of
healthy RELATIONSHIPS.
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