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 %VIRTUOUS ALIENATE JUDGMENTALISM COERCION VIOLENCE+980415           
%CONTROLS DISCIPLINE LEGALISM PURITY CODE LAWS SINS 980415                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     Some  people  perceive themselves to be  virtuous  by    
virtue  of  how effectively they alienate themselves  from    
people who are not as virtuous as they are.    Such people                                                                    
regard  their  own  arrogance  and  self-righteousness  in       
positive  ways  ---  because they view such "virtues"   as      
being soundly  based upon absolute  truths  and  standards                                                             
which must be  defended and maintained by good people such                                                                    
as  themselves.    In the absence of such virtuous defense    
--- the world would go to hell in a hand-basket.                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Some people regard themselves as having powers  which    
are  greater than God's powers.    They must do  what  God                                             
seems  powerless to do,  else the world  will  degenerate.                                             
They  seem to know better than God seems to know ---  what                                                                     
must  be  done  to  uphold essential  standards  of  human                  
perceptions,  desires,  aspirations, and behaviors.   Such        
people are often preoccupied  with issues of control. They                                                           
regard  people  who  might  undermine their preoccupations                                 
with  issues of control ---   as  personal threats to good                                                           
standards for proper behavior which are in  keeping   with                                                       
their sure knowledge  of  God's Will. Humility is not high                                                                     
on their list of virtues.                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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