This is http://www.essayz.com/a9804071.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %CREATURE HUMAN DIFFERENT RELATIONS COOPERATION+980407 %CONFLICT DOMINANCE INVITATION COMMAND PRESCRIBE 980407 Just as individual creatures are different, so also are relationships between creatures. This is true for all different kinds of creatures and for their inter-relationships; whether human or other. Different people differ in various ways: HEREDITY HERITAGE CULTURE TRADITIONS GENETICS LANGUAGE ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS EDUCATION MENTORING MODELS STORIES RANKINGS CASTINGS AUTHORITIES COMMANDMENTS People relate to each other in contrasting ways: Dominance and submission, Invitations into and joining in cooperation, Casual/spontaneous interactions and Formal/systematic interactions, Short-term and long-term relationships, Addictive and codependent relationships, Planned/Goal-oriented and relationships-oriented, Verbal and non-verbal relationships. Efforts to make all different creatures to be alike, or to make all relationships between different creatures alike, are efforts which are doomed to failure --- for those who try to impose conformity will be different from those who rebel against imposed conformity. Such efforts heighten differences more successfully than they eliminate differences. Different creatures respond to the various kinds of such efforts in different ways --- and so maintain the diversity which is essential to the vitality and integrity of living communities. Attempts by some people to homogenize other people and their relationships --- entail/engender coercion, dishonesty, and violence --- which lead to personal and communal differentiation and disintegration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================