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             %EVALUATE MOTIVATION KINDS FEARS 980223      
                                                                                                                               
     Not  all  actions  (nor  all  in-actions)   lead   to                                                                     
consequences  which are independent of the motivations for                                                                     
the actions (or the in-actions) --- as the case may be.                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     Often the consequences of actions (or of  in-actions)                                                                     
depend   in  significant  ways  upon  the  nature  of  the   
motivations for the actions (or of the in-actions) ---  as                                                                     
the case may be.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     The above being the case, it is useful to examine the                                                             
motivations for various  possible  actions (or in-actions)                                                                     
---   to  discern  the  natures of the  various  kinds  of   
motivations  which  may  direct and encourage  us  towards                                                            
them.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
     1.   Generally   we   need   to  respect   and  honor                 
motivations which are  firmly  grounded  in  informed  and                                                                     
reasonable expectations  of an impending disaster; e.g., a                                                                     
tornado,  hurricane,   avalanche,  collision,   mud-slide,                                                                     
volcanic eruption, etc.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     2.   We also  need to respect  and  honor motivations                 
which are  firmly  grounded  in  informed  and  reasonable                                                                     
expectations  of solid returns on appropriate investments;                                                                     
e.g.,  building a house,  paving a road,  shoveling  snow,                                                                     
prudent purchase of reliable stocks, etc.                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     3.   We  need  to  be  careful  about  respecting and                 
honoring motivations which are grounded in fears which are                                                                     
uninformed,  prejudiced,  immature, irrational, fanatical,                                                                     
capricious, arbitrary, and/or manipulative.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     4.   We also need to be careful about respecting  and                 
honoring  motivations  which  are  based  upon  incoherent                                                                     
reasoning, logic, ideals, values and/or principles.                                         
                                                                                                                               
     5.   We cannot be people and communities of integrity                                                                
if our  motivations and foundations lack integrity and are                                                            
incoherent --- if for example they are grounded in:                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     IGNORANCE         MIS-INFORMATION       IRRATIONALITY                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     PREJUDICE         IMMATURITY            FANATICISM                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     EXTREMISM         EXCLUSIVITY           ADDICTIONS                       
                                                                                                                               
     DOMINANCE         TERRORISM             REVENGE                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     6.   We cannot be people and communities of integrity                                                                
if  we  respect  and support  efforts  to  manipulate  and                                      
control   human   thoughts,   feelings,    behaviors   and                                            
appearances --- with indifference to the ways in which the      
efforts  regularly engender alienation,  misunderstanding,                                        
confusion,  resentment,  rebellion,  dishonesty,  secrecy,                                                                  
deception and violence. 
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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