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           %DISTINGUISH CONFUSE NATURE EVIL PEOPLE +020830
            %RELATIONSHIPS ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT +020830
           %DECEPTION PRETENSE ARROGANCE DISHONESTY+020830
           %LOST DISEASE ILLNESS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS+020830
 %BOUNDARIES GUILT NARCISSISM ADDICTION BLAME SHAME 020830
                                                          
     It  is not easy to distinguish between the nature  of
EVIL PEOPLE and the nature of EVIL RELATIONSHIPS.  In both
cases the defining  characteristics  include:  alienation,
estrangement, separation, dishonesty, deception, pretense,
confusion,   concealment,  blurred boundaries,  arrogance,
self-righteousness, self-centeredness, etc.               
                                                          
     Distinguishing   between   EVIL   PEOPLE   and   EVIL
RELATIONSHIPS is made complicated by the following:       
                                                          
     1.  Because evil entails the above characteristics it
is  natural that the boundaries between individual  people
and their inter-personal-relationships will be:  confused,
concealed,  blurred and ignored ---  by many of the people
most intimately involved as leading participants and/or as
victims.                                                  
                                                          
     2.  Domineering  people  and groups of  people  often
demonstrate evil behaviors and relationships; while at the
same time  working diligently to make it hard to recognize
the  nature of the evil which they themselves  demonstrate
---   including  making it hard to recognize their  inter-
woven    patterns-of-characteristics   or   wherein   evil
"resides";    e.g.,   primarily  within   individuals   or
relationships.                                            
                                                          
     3.  EVIL-PEOPLE and  EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS  foster: dis-
ease,  being ill-at-ease,  mental-illness,  physiological-
diseases;  dishonesty,  blaming, shaming, guilting, scape-
goating;  ego-centrism,   narcissism,    arrogance,  self-
righteousness;   addictions,  codependence and collusions;
and  so  make it hard for  EVIL-PEOPLE  (and  others)   to
diagnose the nature of the EVIL-DISEASE.   The EVIL-PEOPLE
shift attention  away from themselves,  their  disease and
the consequences of their disease ---  while paradoxically
regarding  themselves  as central and qualified to  be  in
control; i.e., as "saved", "redeemed", "holy", "superior",
"headed-for-heaven",  "righteous", etc.                   
                                                          
     4.  Perceiving evil as residing in particular labeled
individuals or labeled groups of individuals ---  lays the
foundations for both individuals and groups of individuals
to  seek  to eliminate evil by destroying those  who  have
been labeled as "being evil" in nature.                   
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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