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   %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS FREEDOMS RIGHTS INTEGRITY+010327
 %IDEAL GOALS ABUSIVE MEANS WORSHIP IDOLATRY LEADER+010327
 %DIFFERENT MEMBERS INDIVIDUALS CREATIVE COMPLEMENT+010327
%IGNORANCE CONFUSION BIAS PREJUDICE COERCION DEVILS+010327
   %VIOLENCE DOMINATION SYSTEMS TECHNOCRACY BULLIES+010327
   %BALANCE DUE PROCESS JUSTICE MERCY HUMILITY LOVE 010327
                                                          
     We  need  to beware of articulating ideal  goals  ---
without  concern  about  some  people's  possible  use  of
abusive means for achieving such goals.    We also need to
beware of worshiping ideal means --- without concern about
where such worship is likely to lead.                     
                                                          
     For  a  community  to demonstrate both  personal  and
communal integrity,  the community as a  whole  must  show
concern  about  protecting  the rights of  the  individual
members  of  the community.  The members of the  community
must  also help the community as a whole to set priorities
in  regards  to choosing goals,  and choosing  non-abusive
means.                                                    
                                                          
     A  community cannot enjoy both personal and  communal
integrities   in  the  absence  of  regular  personal  and
communal  work  on  providing,  defending and facilitating
rights and freedoms such as those suggested below:        
                                                          
     1.  Freedoms   from  ignorance,   confusion,    bias,
prejudice, coercion, violence, and domination.            
                                                          
     2.  The  freedom  to be creatively different in  ways
which  affirm  many complementary  ideals,   values,   and
principles.                                               
                                                          
     3.  Freedom from bullies who are   arrogant and self-
righteous as leaders, rulers, and dictators.              
                                                          
     4.  Freedom    to   engage   in   open   and   honest
communications and  dialogue  about personal  experiences,
perceptions,  hopes, aspirations, fears, and desires.     
                                                          
     5.  Freedoms  pertaining  to  privacy,   association,
petition for redress of grievances,  self  governance  and
due process.                                              
                                                          
     6.  Freedom  from  the use  of  secrecy,   deception,
dishonesty,  addictions,  collusions,  codependents,   and
harmful  technologies ---  as means for bullies to achieve
their   unilaterally  chosen  goals,  at  the  expense  of
vulnerable victims.                                       
                                                          
     7.  Freedom from the unilateral concentration of some
people's  unbalanced  powers and advantages  ---   at  the
expense of other people who are poor,  ignorant, confused,
hungry,  homeless, sick, alienated, isolated and otherwise
unusually vulnerable.                                     
                                                          
     8.  Freedom  from  Systemic Domination Systems  which
concentrate  the  Powers That Be into the hands  of  elite
and/or   exclusive  groups  of:   people,    institutions,
traditions,   laws,   formalities,  rituals,   businesses,
religions, professions and systems of government.         
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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