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%EVIL LABELING INDIVIDUAL TRAPPED WITHIN CRAZY GANG+020927
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   %ADDICTION CODEPENDENT COLLUSION MENTAL DISEASES 020927
                                                          
     What  honorable  benefits  can come  to  anybody from
labeling  an individual-person who is trapped in  a  crazy
relationship/context/community  ---   as an  "evil-person"
WITHOUT  focusing any significant amount of attention upon
the  crazy relationship/context/community?    Is there any
way  in  which such an isolated labeling of an  individual
person can be defended?    If so,   in what terms and upon
what basis/authority?                                     
                                                          
     Consider the following specific situations:          
                                                          
     1.  A young child trapped in an addictive family.    
                                                          
     2.  A  young  child  trapped in a  mentally  deranged
family.                                                   
                                                          
     3.    A    teen  age  girl  without   any   financial
support working as a prostitute in a slum.                
                                                          
                                                          
     4.  An  alcoholic  trapped in an  alcoholic  gang  of
close friends who support each other's alcoholic ways.    
                                                          
     5.  A  drug  addict  in a slum making  ends  meet  by
dealing in drugs?                                         
                                                          
     6.  A  well  educated  young  pastor  with  wife  and
children  ---   trapped in  a  conservative/fundamentalist
church which will not tolerate new ideas or insights?     
                                                          
     7.  A  codependent wife trapped in a marriage with  a
domineering   alcoholic   husband  ---   whose    extended
family think he is a wonderful and powerful guy.          
                                                          
     8.  An employee in a company which is dominated by an
addictive/domineering    top  leader  ---    and   his/her
codependent subordinates.                                 
                                                          
     9.    An  intelligent  political leader ---   who  is
dependent for  re-election upon voters who are uninformed,
biased, Prejudiced,   and fearful of anything which is new
and/or different.                                         
                                                          
    10.  A  business person within the management of ENRON
at  the  height  of  its success story with all  her  life
savings invested in ENRON stocks ---   but  she has become
aware of the dishonest basis of its "success" story.      
                                                          
     Can anyone with integrity --- label any  of the above
individual  people and/or what they do to survive ---   as
"evil" --- in isolation from focusing comparable attention
upon  the evil relationships/contexts/communities   within
which they find themselves  trapped?    How so?    By what
logic?   On what evidence and/or authority?               
                                                          
     Can any honorable-good  come  from placing  the label
"evil" upon any such an individual --- while neglecting to
focus a complementary  amount  of attention  upon the evil
relationships,   contexts and/or communities  ---   within
which the person is attempting to survive?   How so?    By
what logic? On what evidence and/or authority?            
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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