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  %ABSOLUTE INTOLERANT DICTATORIAL DOMINANT VIRTUES+990126  
 %UNBALANCED EXCLUSIVE EXTREME TYRANNICAL IDEALISMS+990126                       
  %NARROW SPECIALIST DEMAND CONTENTIOUS RELIGIOSITY 990126                
                                                                                                                               
     When any single/isolated virtue,  ideal or  principle               
is  worshipped  as  if it were the  appropriate  focus  of                                                                     
ultimate concern, respect and honor --- to the denigration                               
and exclusion  of  interest  in  other  inter-related  and                      
integrative virtues,  ideals and principles ---   personal                                         
and communal integrity suffer because of idolatry.                          
                                                                                                                               
     Contentious people who are preoccupied with issues of                
control  often appeal to virtues which serve them well  in                                                           
their efforts to concentrate power to  be in control. Such                               
appeals to virtues which are means to  concentrate   power                               
---  regarding appeals which merit  no respect or support.                                 
Juxtapositions  of  words suggesting manners  of  approach                                                                     
with  words suggestive of positive virtues  may help us to                                                                     
recognize oxymoronic "virtues":                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     ABSOLUTE TRUTH               INTOLERANT LOVE  
                                                                                                                               
     DICTATORIAL DISCIPLINE       CONTENTIOUS GUIDANCE                
                                                                                                                               
     DOMINEERING SUPPORT          EXCLUSIVE LOYALTY                       
                                                                                                                               
     PERFECTIONISTS IDEALISM      ADDICTIVE PERFECTION                                         
                                                                                                                               
     COLLUSIVE DISCIPLES          DISHONEST FAITHFULNESS                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     COERCIVE GUIDANCE            VIOLENT ORDER           
                                                                                                                               
     DOMINEERING LOVE             ALIENATIVE IDEALISM                                        
                                                                                                                               
     People merit our respect and support when they gently                                      
weave  complementary ideals,  values and  principles  into  
fabrics which support personal  and communal integrity and                                                                
integration.   People do not merit our respect and support                                      
when they are preoccupied with isolated ideals, values and                                         
principles  in  exclusive ways which threaten personal and      
communal integrity --- because   of   their   intolerance,  
contentiousness,  addictions,  violence,  and   alienative           
manners of approach to people and relationships.                                                              
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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