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  %DESCRIBE PRESCRIBE PROSCRIBE COLLUSION TRANSCEND+980102                                                   
 %ALIENATION EVIL SIN CONTROL PREVENT RECONCILE SIN 980102                                       
                                                                                                                               
     How  may  descriptions  serve more  effectively  than                                               
either  prescriptions  or  proscriptions in  dealing  with                                                                     
people  who  are  prone to act  in  ways  which  undermine      
personal and communal integrity?                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Prescriptions  and proscriptions are unlikely  to                                                                     
serve to control such people's dishonest behaviors;  or to                                                       
prevent   the   disintegrative   consequences   of   their                                                                   
behaviors.   They are experts  in manipulative  procedures              
--- which often  entail  the use of coercion, violence and           
dishonesty.    There is no point in trying to beat them at                                                                  
their own kind of game.  In making such a effort those who                   
try to control them ---  by trying to beat them  at  their                                                           
own  kind of game,  become like the people they are trying                   
to control.                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The  people  who are playing collusive  games  of                                                   
mutual  self  deception are terrified at  the  possibility 
that  their  games  will be  exposed  through  the  public                                
presentation  of accurate descriptions of what it  is that                                                                     
they  are  doing.     They want (at all costs)   to  avoid                                                                     
having   to  openly  and  honestly  respond  to   accurate                                  
descriptions of their dishonest patterns of behavior. They                                                       
want to drag others into their games;  to avoid having the  
light  of truth falling upon them and exposing their  dark                                                                     
ways.      
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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