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%DISEASE EXTREMIST ANTAGONIST CONTENTIOUS COMBATIVE+980425                
%FANATIC COERCIVE VIOLENT ARGUMENTATIVE NARROW EVIL+980425           
 %UNBALANCED EXCLUSIVE COMMUNITY CLUB CHURCH NATION 980425                       
                                                                                                                               
     In  early  times  people  treated  diseases  such  as                                                                    
leprosy  as a ground for excluding victims of the  disease                       
from the community ---  in an intuitive fearful quarantine                                                                
of the affected victim.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     Many  irregular  behavior patterns  are  regarded  as               
grounds  for  the  exclusion of victims of  the  irregular                       
behavior  patterns  ---   from  their  community.     Such                                                       
exclusion  is grounded on ignorance,  prejudice and  fear;                       
not upon knowledge, familiarity and love.                                           
                                                                                                                               
     How then are we to respond to people whose  behaviors                                  
are suggested by words such as:                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     EXTREMIST       ANTAGONISTIC      CONTENTIOUS                
                                                                                                                               
     COMBATIVE       FANATICAL         COERCIVE                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     VIOLENT         ARGUMENTATIVE     NARROW           
                                                                                                                               
     UNBALANCED      EXCLUSIVE         JUDGMENTAL                       
                                                                                                                               
     Are such people to be excluded from community;  or do                       
they  alienate  themselves from community out of  fear  of    
being  found  out  in  open  and  honest  dialogue  within                             
intimate communities?                     
                                                                                                                               
     Are such people evil sinners who refuse to  repent to                                       
be condemned to excommunication?    Is there no better way      
to  deal with their irregular patterns  of  behavior?  Are                                                       
such people more likely to adopt regular behavior patterns                                                       
in    response    to   judgements,    condemnations    and                                  
excommunications   ---   or  in  response  to  efforts  to                                  
facilitate improved communication and dialogue?  Upon what                                                                
evidence  is any response to such questions based.   Is it               
based upon prejudice,  theory,  fear ---  rather than upon                                                                     
personal experience and solid objective evidence?                                   
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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