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%MORALITY CODE ENFORCEMENT ENCOURAGE ETHICS SIN+990622
%BAD PERFECT CONFUSED IGNORANT PREJUDICED MORAL+990622
%ETHICAL POOR UNSUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL PEOPLE EVIL+990622
%PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY HEALTH HEALING GOD+990622
%GOOD EVIL DOMINANT CONTROL DEFENSIVE RESPONSE 990622
Often good well-intended people have generated
prescriptions, proscriptions, commandments, rules,
regulations, etc. --- in efforts to say what people
"should" do to promote personal and communal integrity.
Not so often have good well-intended people articulated
what "should" be done and by whom --- in order to
deal "properly" with people who do not do what they
"should" do; including cases when people do not do
what they "should" do to deal "properly" with people
who do not do what they "should" do.
Much of our difficulty in regards to the above has to
do with the fact that there is no well verified theory
about helping people fulfill expectations regarding moral
and ethical codes. For example, what is the level of
importance of each of the following?
1. Preaching at people about what is "right".
2. Setting high standards about what is "right".
3. Supporting mothers of young children.
4. Supporting early and effective schooling.
5. Supporting newly married couples in beginning
healthy marriages.
6. Rewarding only people who work diligently.
7. Punishing people who do wrong.
8. Teaching college courses in ethics/morality.
9. Promoting conflict resolutions in schools.
10. Returning religious training to public schools.
11. Paying adequate wages to child-care personnel.
12. Regarding universal health care as good
insurance for communal integrity.
13. Locking up repeat offenders with no parole.
14. Working to promote humane reconciliation.
15. Developing adequate theories of humane behavior.
16. Many other possibilities might be listed.
It is one thing to articulate how good people should
behave in the presence of good people. It is a far more
difficult thing to articulate how good people should
behave in the presence of "bad", "imperfect", "confused",
"ignorant", "prejudiced", "evil", "immoral", "un-ethical",
"poor", "unsuccessful", and "criminal" people.
For good well-intended people to be more effective in
helping others to behave in ways which are supportive of
personal and communal integrity --- there will need to be
broader and deeper agreement among good well-
intended people --- regarding how they should behave
when others behave in ways which threaten both personal
and communal integrity through:
ARROGANCE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
PERFECTIONISM INTOLERANCE
PREJUDICE CONFUSION
ADDICTION CODEPENDENCE
NAIVETE IGNORANCE
JUDGEMENTALISM CONDEMNATIONS
EXCOMMUNICATIONS INJUSTICE
DEFENSIVENESS COERCION
How "good" people respond to unconventional people
--- often has much to do with how such unconventional
people behave in the future. Often "good" people
do not acknowledge the nature of their influence
upon the behavior upon creative people --- who cannot
fulfill their integrative potentials without being
unconventional. Creative people may be lead to become
defensive, non-communicative, and rebellious --- when
"good" people who are preoccupied with issues of
control attempt to play dominant roles in their lives.
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