This is http://www.essayz.com/b0204101.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ABSOLUTE PERSONAL LOYALTY PARTICULAR ISOLATED ONES+020410 %UNDERMINE ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS INTEGRITIES LOVED+020410 %CONCENTRATION POWER CORRUPT SUPERIOR EXCLUSIVE SIN+020410 %TRUTH UNDERMINE DESTROY COERCION VIOLENCE WAR GODS 020410 Be aware of and beware of people who promote loyalty to particular people or select groups of people; rather than to the essential foundations of personal and communal integrity. When we are loyal to particular people or to select groups of people --- we encourage them to move towards the concentration of power into the hands of fewer and fewer "superior" ones who are self-righteous and arrogant. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Truth which is regarded as if is is absolute, surely corrupts absolutely, as it undermines the foundations of both personal and communal integrities which are essential to healthy living and welfare. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================