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 %WHEN AFFIRMATION DEGRADATIONS VALUES IDEALS GOODS 040329
%TABOO QUESTIONED PRINCIPLES RESPONSIVE LIMITED GOD 040329
%ULTIMATE CONCERN BEING PRESENT DICTATOR KING QUEEN 040329
%LORD FATHER MOTHER DOMINANT SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DEVIL 040329
%CONCENTRATED POWER UNCHECKED ABSOLUTE TRUTH LOVERS 040329
  %EVIDENCE EXPERIENCE AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION CAUSES 040329

     When affirmations of values, ideals, principles, etc.
come into question it is natural and proper to ask why the
affirmations   are   questioned  and/or  affirmed.     The
responses  may  include,   but  are  not  limited to,  the
following kinds of responses:

     1.  The Dictator,  King, Queen, Lord, Father, Mother,
or some  other  Dominant-Person"   or "Dominant-Coalition"
SAID-SO!

     2.  Power   corrupts  and  unchecked/absolute   power
corrupts absolutely.

     3.  There  is  reliable evidence that the affirmation
(or  the degradation  of  the affirmation)   will lead  to
specified consequences --- which may be generally regarded
as "good" or as "bad".

     4.  There   is  some generally   accepted   "belief",
"doctrine",   "natural-law", "coherent-theory",  "ruling",
or taboo that  "indicates"  that  the  affirmation (or the
degradation    of   the   affirmation)    will   lead   to
specified/implied consequences ---  which may be generally
regarded as "good" or as "bad".

     5.  ASSOCIATED   with   the   affirmation   (or   its
degradation)    are  people  or  other  affirmations   (or
degradations) which are generally regarded as "good" or as
"bad";  i.e., virtue or guilt-by-association;  even though
there   may  be  no  evidence  of  direct   causation   or
participation in that which is judged negatively.

     6.  A thorough "systems-analysis" of a complex system
of inter-acting and inter-related parts indicates that the
affirmation (or degradation)  is NOT truly defensible  for
the  stated reasons based upon any evidence which is  firm
and is respected   by   well-informed and  well-integrated
persons and/or groups of persons.

     When affirmations or degradations come into  question
we  need to ask why they should be regarded as "good"   or
"bad"  with the above kinds of considerations kept clearly
in mind by those who are involved.  In the absence of such
intentional  care  ---   domineering  people  become  more
powerful in corrupt ways.

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