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  %CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK MOTIVATIONS DOMINEERING SIN+020827
 %UNILATERAL DEMANDS VULNERABLE OBEY RULES LAWS GOD+020827
   %PRACTICAL REASONS AVOID HARM DISEASE PREVENTION+020827
 %PERSONAL EXPERIENCE PERCEPTION CONSEQUENCES DEVIL+020827
%SYMBOLIC SUBMISSION INTRUDE PRIVACY CONTROL RIGHTS+020827
 %LABELS BLAME SHAME GUILT REJECTION CONDEMN ACCEPT 020827
                                                          
      Consider  the  conceptual  frameworks  and  kinds of
motivations  that  are  often operative in attempts on the
part  of  domineering people to get others  to  submit  to
their own domineering efforts:                            
                                                          
     1.  There  are  UNILATERAL  demands on  the  part  of
     DOMINEERING people that VULNERABLE people should OBEY
     some:                                                
                                                          
     rules, laws, regulations, commandments,              
     prescriptions, proscriptions, etc.                   
                                                          
     which are chosen by the domineering people ---       
                                                          
     who MAY OR MAY NOT be in official positions          
                                                          
     with official authority --- and MAY OR MAY NOT       
                                                          
     have played roles in creating the original           
     rules, laws, etc.                                    
                                                          
     2.  There are no clear and present practical reasons 
     given --- indicating why obedience is important to   
     anybody; e.g., probable physical harm, threat of     
     harm, or threat of the spread of disease.            
                                                          
     3.  UNILATERALLY APPLIED LABELS                      
                                                          
     which define classes of people                       
                                                          
     without respect for individual differences           
                                                          
     often play central roles in identifying those        
                                                          
     vulnerable ones  upon  whom  the demands are imposed;
     e.g.,  FEMALES,   CHILDREN, SLAVES,   BLACKS,   JEWS,
     GERMANS,  JAPS, COMMUNISTS,  SOCIALISTS,   RED-SKINS,
     HEATHEN, GAYS, HOMOSEXUALS, LESBIANS, ETC.           
                                                          
     4.  There is no indication of how a failure to submit
     to  the demands of domineering people will cause  any
     real harm to anyone --- except perhaps to the egos of
     the domineering people who make the demands.         
                                                          
     5.  A credible case can be made that what is being   
     demanded is SYMBOLIC SUBMISSION to DOMINATION        
                                                          
     unilaterally imposed by the domineering people who   
     impose the demands ---                               
                                                          
     in the absence of any indication of how disobedience 
                                                          
     will undermine any personal or communal integrities. 
                                                          
     6.  What is at issue is the CONCENTRATION OF POWER to
     be in unilateral control --- versus RECONCILIATION,  
     LIBERATION, INTEGRATION, PEACEMAKING and HEALING.    
                                                          
                                                          
     It  is important to recognize that domineering people
(consciously and/or unconsciously)  devise ways to intrude
into  the private lives of vulnerable people who are  ill-
disposed to submit to their domination:                   
                                                          
     1.  In  the  ways suggested above ---  by  in  effect
setting   up   warning  lights which are ON so   long   as
there  are continuing signals from vulnerable people  that
they are willing to submit to domination.   If the warning
lights go OFF --- then domineering people must move in  to
take  assertive/unilateral   action to ward off  any  more
serious  move  to  subvert their dominant positions in the
lives  of  the vulnerable people.                         
                                                          
     2.  By procedures which place public blame/shame upon
vulnerable  people who refuse to keep their warning lights
ON through symbolic daily gestures of submission  to   the
domineering people's demands,    rules, regulations,  etc.
                                                          
     3.  By introjecting into vulnerable people a sense of
guilt,   shame,  self-blame,  self-punishment,  etc.   for
failing  to  be faithful/obedient towards the "legitimate"
authorities.                                              
                                                          
     It   is   important  to refrain from   labeling   any
class of people "DOMINEERING PEOPLE"  just because of some
other label which has been applied to them by others or by
themselves due  to: skin color,   nationality,    culture,
language, religion, beliefs, life-style, etc.             
                                                          
     The  term  DOMINEERING PEOPLE"  is  best  limited  to
people   as   a  DESCRIPTIVE TERM  which  is   based  upon
people's    own    personal   PATTERNS     of   ATTITUDES,
ASSUMPTIONS,   and  MOTIVATIONS  as  REVEALED   by   their
DOMINEERING  BEHAVIORS.   The   term   may reasonably   be
applied   to   groups  of people   because   of  pervasive
PATTERNS   in    their   cohesive    group's    ATTITUDES,
ASSUMPTIONS,    and  MOTIVATIONS  as  REVEALED  by   their
DOMINEERING BEHAVIORS; e.g.,  among many of the leaders of
the NAZI,  ITALIAN,   JAPANESE and SOVIET countries during
WORLD WAR II.    Of course many people in those  countries
might with  good  reason say the same thinG about many  of
the  central leaders  of  the United States of America and
its   allies  during   their  colonial  period,    and  of
slave-owners  and DEFENDERS of SLAVERY and SEGREGATION all
around the  world in all times and places.                
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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