This is http://www.essayz.com/b0301041.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.} ========================================================== %GOOD THEORY DEVELOPMENT DECAY PERSONAL COMMUNAL+030104 %HYPOTHESIS NATURAL LAWS DESCRIBE CAUSE EFFECTS+030104 %ABSENCES PRESENCES FAILURES ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS+030104 %EVIL RELATIONSHIPS ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT CONTROL+030104 %FEEDBACK LOOPS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ARROGANT INTRUDERS+030104 %PRIVACY RIGHTS INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS COERCION SIN 030104 Any adequate theory of the development of personal and communal integrities, and of the decay of personal and communal integrities --- must give appropriate consideration to such factors as the following: 1. The particular ways in which absences of, and failures to attend to, the essential foundations of personal and communal integrities --- lead to personal and communal disintegrations. 2. The ways in which particular absences/failures naturally lead to other particular absences/failures --- and to disintegrative: attitudes, assumptions, thoughts, emotions, inclinations, desires, decisions and actions ---which in turn generate: alienation, estrangement, communication-inhibitions, secrecy, dishonesty, and so lead to attempts to dominate, control, "fix", "correct", "perfect", etc. 3. The ways in which the latter effects above generate: anger, rebellion, revenge, coercion, violence, etc. 4. The ways in which self-righteous critics/judges of "imperfect/impure" people --- make matters worse by intruding into the private lives of people whom they do not know, understand, or show any reverence. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================