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  %PROTECT PROMOTE MINIMIZE SELF INTEREST RIGHTEOUS 980904       
                                                                                                                               
     We  protect  and promote both personal  and  communal                                                                
integrity when we:                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Protect all people's rights to privacy.       
     2.  Protect the weak people and children.                                                                    
     3.  Protect the sick, diseased and handicapped.                                                                           
     4.  Protect the the most vulnerable people.                                                                    
     5.  Promote and facilitate security and honesty.                                                                  
     6.  Facilitate intimacy which is open and honest.                     
     7.  Minimize our own defensiveness.                   
     8.  Exchange gifts of security = safe vulnerability.                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     We  undermine  both personal and  communal  integrity                                                    
when we:                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Protect  our own views,  traditions,   interests,                   
beliefs,   powers  and possessions ---  at the  expense of             
others.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Seek to minimize our own embarrassments, changes,                   
and costs --- at the expense of others.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Are  pretentious  about  our  own  righteousness,       
perfection, superiority, and invulnerability.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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