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%ASSESS COSTS SINS ALIENATION PUNISHMENT EVIL FAIL+991122
%ARROGANCE SELFRIGHTEOUSNESS IMPRISONMENT IGNORANCE+991122
%SICKNESS DISEASE EPIDEMIC DYSFUNCTIONAL SEXUALITY+991122
%CONFUSION ADDICTIONS COLLUSIONS DISHONESTY REJECT 991122
There is no doubt that there are forms of evil in
most people's lives:
1. Relationships which entail: alienation,
estrangement, fear, confusion, prejudice, bias, arrogance,
self-righteousness, disease, confusion, addictions,
collusion and/or dishonesty.
2. Relationships which entail: coercion,
manipulation, violence, extremism, imbalance, abuse,
victimization of vulnerable people, and/or self-
centeredness.
3. Relationships which entail: judgementalism,
condemnations, rejections, expulsions, excommunications,
and/or other punishments.
4. Relationships which entail violations of formally
legislated secular laws.
5. Offenses against informal: traditions,
expectations, hopes, and aspirations.
Whenever we seek to respond to forms of evil which
offend us --- we need to consider whether our forms of
response will in the long term promote and facilitate both
personal and communal integrity --- and whether the costs
(both in direct costs and in indirect costs) of our
forms of response --- will be greater or less than the
costs entailed in not responding --- or than the costs
of responding in quite different yet intentional ways.
All too often the costs of efforts to mitigate evil have
only compounded the actual costs of the initial forms
of evil --- by compounding the forms and amounts
of alienation, estrangement, confusion, dishonest,
addictions and collusions which are engendered by the
efforts to mitigate the evil. Well intentioned good
people often engender many evil relationships because
they are misguided, ignorant, confused, prejudiced,
and/or biased. Beware of putting such people in
positions of leadership, authority and power!
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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