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%RESPOND DEAL WITH PRESENCE EVIL RELATIONSHIPS KIND+030203
 %ATTACK DESTROY ELIMINATE SEGREGATE PRISON PREVENT+030203
   %PROTECT COERCE DOMINATE ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT+030203
  %EXCOMMUNICATION SHUNNING IMPRISONMENT BANISHMENT+030203
  %REPRESSION SUPPRESSION UNILATERAL CONTROL TERROR+030203
    %WAR THREAT VIOLENCE CONQUEST COLONIAL DICTATOR 030203
              %TORTURE ISOLATE ABUSE BRUTALITY RAPE 030203

     To  respond  wisely and prudently to the presence  of
evil  in  the world and our lives --- we need to know  how
to recognize the various kinds,  manifestations and causes
of  evil  in our lives and relationships.    What can  be,
and often  is,   evil?    What cannot be,  and  never  is,
essentially evil?

     Evil always relates to human RELATIONSHIPS in one way
or another.    Below,  related words suggest various kinds
of  behaviors  and relationships which are often  seen  as
evil:

     1.  Alienation, estrangement, excommunication,
         shunning, imprisonment, banishment, repression,
         suppression, unilateral-controls.

     2.  Coercion, domination, terrorism, war, threats,
         violence, conquest, colonialism, empire-building,
         dictatorships.

     3.  Enslavement, slavery, legalized-segregation,
         legalized-prejudice, unilateral limitations of
         rights.

     4.  Coerced-conformity, unwilling-submission,
         codependency, complicity, indifference,
         withdrawal, depression.

     5.  Dishonesty, pretentiousness, arrogance, self-
         righteousness, contentiousness, collusions,
         conspiracies,

     6.  Mandatory-vulnerability, meanness, torture,
         brutality, abuse, rape, murder.

     7.  Narcissism, egocentricity, self-centeredness,
         selfishness, greed, stealing.

     8.  "Invulnerability", defensiveness, insecurity.

     There  are  other forms and  manifestations  of  evil
which are often confused with appearances of necessity and
virtue.    It  is especially difficult to deal wisely  and
prudently  with such obscure forms and  manifestations  of
evil ---  before being clear about the pattern  of  inter-
relationships     among   the   more   clear   forms   and
manifestations of evil.

     Life  is  complicated by traditions of  labeling the-
enemy,   "different"  people,  unfamiliar-people and  non-
conformists as "evil" to make them more vulnerable.   When
personified-evil is presumed to be easy to identify --- it
is very difficult to identify the forms of evil with which
one    is  oneself  complicit  ---   through   the   evil-
relationships within which one is participating.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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