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  %HOW RECOGNIZE CLARIFY DIFFERENCE LEGITIMATE LAWS 040115
 %AUTHORITY ENFORCE RULES REGULATIONS PRESCRIPTIONS 040115
 %PROSCRIPTIONS ARROGANCE POWER CONCENTRATION LOVER 040115
   %DOMINATION SYSTEM PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES 040115
   %CONFORMITY CREATIVITY CONFLICT RESOLUTION PEACE 040115
  %LIBERATION FREEDOM HONEST DIALOGUE INTIMACY WARS 040115

     How  can  we  recognize and  clarify  the  difference 
between  the  legitimate exercise of authority to  enforce 
legitimate  laws,   rules,   regulations,   prescriptions, 
proscriptions,  etc. --- and the arrogation of power to be 
dominant?     It   helps   to   remember   the   following 
considerations: 
     
     1.  True-Lovers  are  dedicated to  facilitating  and 
promoting  both  personal  and  communal  integrities  --- 
rather than conformity. 
     
     2.  Conformity is not the essence of integrity. 
     
     3.  There  are many diverse ways in which people  can 
demonstrate personal and communal integrity, health, well-
being, etc. 
     
     4.  The  legitimate exercise of authority  to enforce 
legitimate  laws,   rules,   regulations,   prescriptions, 
proscriptions,  etc. ---  will facilitate and promote both 
personal  and  communal  integrities  ---   while  leaving 
different people(s)  free to be honestly-different as they 
also  work  to facilitate and promote  both  personal  and 
communal integrities in their own unique ways. 

     5.  Evil     resides     within-RELATIONSHIPS      of 
estrangement,  alienation,  excommunication,   animosity, 
contentiousness,  etc.  --- rather than within-INDIVIDUALS 
who are participants within such-RELATIONSHIPS. 
   
     6.  Evil  which  resides within-RELATIONSHIPS  cannot 
unilaterally be reduced,  removed, eliminated,  mitigated, 
or "treated" so as to facilitate and promote both personal 
and communal integrities. 
     
     7.  Legitimate-authority   is   NOT  based  upon  the 
concentration of power to unilaterally impose the will  of 
some people upon other people --- in the absence of mutual 
understanding and cooperation. 

     8.  Legitimate-authority  is based upon members of  a 
community being committed  to facilitate and cooperatively 
promote    many    kinds   of   personal    and   communal 
integrities ---  rather  than  any  ideal  FORM  of FORMal 
conFORMity/FORMality. 
     
     9.  All  forms  of  integrity entail open and  honest 
communications  which  flow  freely  in  the  absence   of 
coercion, violence, and domination. 
     
     10.  Domineering people cannot AS SUCH facilitate  or 
promote  either  personal or communal forms of  integrity; 
because their patterns of behavior undermine/inhibit  open 
and honest communications. 
     
     11.  The  proper  tools/means  for  facilitating  and 
promoting both personal and communal forms of  integrities 
---  cannot be readily used by domineering people in their 
kinds of disintegrative works. 

     12.  People-of-integrity behave in coherent ways  all 
of the time;  not in contrasting ways which lack coherence 
in different  times and  places.    Their  dedications  to 
facilitating  and  promoting  both personal  and  communal 
kinds of integrities  are  evident  in  all of their  kind 
behaviors. 

     13.  Domineering  people  behave  in incoherent  ways 
which demonstrate arrogance, self-righteousness, coercion, 
violence, etc.  and so facilitate and promote personal and 
communal   disintegrations   ---   in   the   absence   of 
communications  and  dialogue which are open,  honest  and 
kind. 

     14.  To recognize domineering people reliably we need 
to  remember  that  domineering  people  are  not   always 
selfish.   They will on  occasion  be willing to sacrifice 
their own personal and communal integrities in the service 
of  "The Domination System"  and/or its  declared  "good": 
purposes, causes, goals,  ideals, values, principles, etc.   
However,   their first choice often is  to  sacrifice  the 
personal and communal integrities of OTHER  PEOPLE WHO ARE 
VULNERABLE   and/or  willing   to   sacrifice  their   own 
personal and communal integrities for certain recommended:  
purposes, causes, goals, ideals, values, principles, etc.  

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