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  %DISINTEGRATE COMMAND LAW PRESCRIBE PROSCRIBE SIN 971016                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     Not  all  laws,   commandments,   prescriptions   and                                                                     
proscriptions are equally helpful.   Some are essential to                  
personal  and  communal integrity;   e.g.,   proscriptions                                                                
against:  murder, rape, stealing,  extortion,  dishonesty,                                                                  
violence,     coercion,    embezzlement,    etc.      Some           
prescriptions are also essential to personal and  communal                  
integrity;  e.g., regarding:  paying taxes,  traffic flow,                                 
safety practices,  sanitation,  etc.     In such instances                                                                     
there   is   a  sense  in   which   laws,    commandments,                                                                     
prescriptions   and  proscriptions  MAKE  SENSE  as  being                                                             
essential to both personal and communal integrity.  In the                  
absence  of some basic agreements about them ---  personal                                                                 
and communal integrity is impossible.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     There are other laws, commandments, prescriptions and                                                               
proscriptions  which  are not as helpful as  the  coherent                                                                     
kinds  suggested above.    There are some which contribute                                                           
to  personal  and communal disintegration much  more  than                                                                
they  contribute  to personal  and  communal  integration.                                                           
These can be distinguished from the integrative ones in  a                                                                   
variety of ways.  Disintegrative laws are often:      
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Arbitrary, capricious or prejudicial.                                                                                 
     2.  Unrelated to personal or communal integrity.                                                              
     3.  Related to attempts of people to be in control.                                                           
     4.  Flow from "either/or" thinking and/or demands.                                                                        
     5.  Wrapped up in patterns of collusions.                                                   
     6.  Related to ancient times but not modern times.                                                              
     7.  Unrelated to modern needs and experiences.                 
     8.  Related to power conflicts between groups.                                             
     9.  Impossible to enforce in integrative ways.      
     10. Articulated in ambiguous ways which invite abuse.      
     11. Unarticulated in any formal and clear way.      
     12. Interpreted to serve only powerful people.                      
     13. Ignored when it is convenient to powerful people.                                             
     14. Written according to addictive ways of thinking.      
     15. Unnecessarily coercive and demanding to the poor.                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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