This is http://www.essayz.com/b0309131.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.} ========================================================== %ADMIRE PEOPLE BECAUSE INTEGRITIES OWNERS CONTROL+030913 %COVET DOMINATION SYSTEM INVULNERABILITY SECURITY+030913 %UNDERMINE DISINTEGRATE DESTROY GROUNDS ESSENTIAL+030913 %FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL HEALTH SHALOM DEVILS 030913 As we admire people because of their integrities --- we are not inclined to act in ways which will undermine or destroy integrities which we DO admire. - - - - - - - If we admire people because of what they own and/or control --- we will covet what they own and/or control --- and act in ways which will undermine or destroy their own integrities which we DO NOT admire. - - - - - - - If we admire people because of how well they conform to some ideal standard --- we will reject/alienate them when they fail to conform "properly" --- and so we will undermine or destroy their integrities which we DO NOT admire. - - - - - - - As we undermine different people's personal integrities --- at the same time we undermine the essential foundations for our communal and personal integrities; for all integrities are interdependent in ways which cannot be separated from each other --- without undermining or destroying the integrities. - - - - - - - So long as we systematically behave as if the above statements are not true or are irrelevant --- so long we are likely to think and behave in ways which undermine our own personal and communal integrities --- and blind ourselves to what we are doing to undermine our own integrities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================