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  %RESPONDING DIFFERENT PEOPLE CONTRAST CONVICTIONS 031013
  %FAILURE FULFILL DUTY DUTIES SELF OTHER CHALLENGE 031013
%DOMINEERING PEACEMAKERS DEFINED UNILATERALLY PEACE 031013
  %HELPFULLY RESPOND NEGLIGENT CLAFIRY AFFIRMATIONS 031013
  %TRUTH GRACIOUS CIVIL HOSPITABLE INTERGATION LOVE 031013
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     Different  people  have contrasting convictions about
what  their  duties  are,  and what about  other  people's
duties are.

     Some domineering people feel that it is their duty to
manage  other  people's sense of duty;   and  to challenge
negligent people  who do not fulfill their duties  as  the
domineering  people are convinced that other people should
fulfill their  duties ---  as  defined unilaterally by the
domineering people.

     What   can   we  do  to  respond  most  helpfully  to
domineering  people who claim that we have been  negligent
by failing to do our duty?

     1.  We can seek to clarify among ourselves our duties
as  humans  to  be truthful,   honest,   gracious,  civil,
hospitible and  dedicated to peacemaking so as to  promote
personal and communal  integrations  and integrities;  and
then call   upon    domineering  people   to  do  likewise
among themselves.

     2.  We  can  in  positive ways affirm our  own honest
beliefs,  convictions and goals related to promoting  both
personal  and  communal integrations and integrities;  and
then call upon domineering people to do likewise.

     3.  We can  clarify WHY it is that  we  believe  that
it is helpful  to  be:    truthful,    honest,   gracious,
civil,   hospitible   and   dedicated   to    peacemaking;
and then ask  domineering  people what  their   complemen-
tary  and/or contrasting beliefs are --- so  that  we  may
all   better  understand   each   other's    reasons   for
affirming    what  we  affirm  in  words  and  deeds  most
coherently.

     4.  We can help bystanders to learn to understand the
differences  between  us  as  peacemakers  and  others  as
domineering   people;   and  how   to    give    due    to
consideration to each different person.

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