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%DIFFERENTIATION PREOCCUPATION PURITY SUPERIOR SINS+980317                                     
%RIGHTEOUSNESS SALVATION ACCEPTANCE PROPRIETY EVILS+980317       
  %EXCLUSIVITY INSECURITY DEFENSIVENESS TECHNOCRACY+980317                       
%GOOD EVIL PEOPLE BETTER EXCLUSIVITY CLUBS CHURCHES 980317                       
                                                                                                                               
     In  our  efforts  not to make the  horrible  mistakes                                                            
which  we  see other people foolishly make ---   we  often                                                               
stumble right into other people's pattern of  trying to be  
"better than others".                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Our preoccupations with how properly we are different                                     
from fools and "evil people" ---  are preoccupations which                                       
often  turn us into fools who engender much alienation and  
violence.           
                                                                                                                               
     Often  we  are insecure and fear different people ---                                     
and try  to be different in better ways than the  ways  in      
which they are "different".    We choose what we choose to                                     
think are  good  ways of being different;   thinking  that      
others  whom  we  fear have chosen "evil"   ways  of being      
different.    We are proud of our ways of being different,      
and regard others' differences as signs of inferiority.                                 
                                                                                                                               
     On  what  grounds  can we with integrity  be arrogant                                                                   
about our superior ways of being different?   Can we  with      
integrity  reject/exclude others who are different in ways      
which we fear --- due to our ignorance and prejudice?  Can                                                            
we with integrity be proud of how "good" we  are---because                          
of how we are different from others whom we do not know in                                     
any personally informed way?      
                                                                                                                               
     Can anybody with integrity reject others whom they do               
not  know ---  as inferior  people?     Can  anybody  with               
integrity  engender alienation?    Can "good"  people ever                                        
have good  grounds for regarding  themselves  as  "better"    
than "evil" people?                                       
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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