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%DOMINEERING PEOPLE PRESENT CONTEXT SITUATION RIGHT 040615
 %ASSERT BELIEVE CONVICTION WORSEN IMPROVE COMMUNAL 040615
   %PRUDENT GRACE SACRIFIC COOPERATE FOCUS PRIORITY 040615
%BALANCE INTEGRITIES INTEGRATIONS SELF CENTERED EGO 040615
%FLAWED ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES INTERDEPENDENT DESIRE 040615
%HUMANE NEEDS COERCION VIOLENT DOMINATION WARS EVIL 040615

      When  domineering people find that within their  own
present-contexts-and-situations  they  cannot exercise the
personal  rights  that they believe should be  theirs  ---
they attempt to assert their rights in  ways  that  worsen
their  own  and other people's  situations  and  contexts;
rather than improve their communal-contexts.

      Domineering  people are not likely to be  prudently,
graciously,   sacrificially and cooperatively focused upon
the  essential  foundations of communal integrity known as
interdependent with personal integrity --- and so they  do
NOT  focus  upon  what they can do  to  improve  only  the
contexts  and   situations   of  all   members   of  their
communities.

      It is essential that at all times we be concerned in
balanced ways with our own and other people's communal and
personal integrities --- and be concerned in balanced ways
with the essential foundations thereof.  Self-centered and
privileged-group-centered  efforts  to  improve  only  OUR
contexts  and  situations ---  are based upon  the  flawed
assumption that we  and  "they"  are  NOT  INTERDEPENDENT.
Flawed  assumptions  lead to flawed  plans,   efforts  and
outcomes in the long term.

      Dichotomous people often urge us to adopt unilateral
positions which  are at dichotomously opposite extremes of
spectrums which entail  support  of such extremes as  such
those following; presented in no intentional order:

     1.  A dictatorship by one person.
     2.  An oligarchy by a few persons.
     3.  A rigid caste system within a culture.
     4.  Domination by an elite/exclusive group.
     5.  A chaotic revolution against all authorities.
     6.  An economic system guided primarily by greed.
     7.  Pure-capitalism without limitations.
     8.  Domination by majority-rule.
     9.  Domination by one exclusive ideal/priority.
    10.  Domination by a-few exclusive ideals/priorities.
    11.  Domination by some elitists' ideals/priorities.
    12.  Equal emphasis upon all priorities.
    13.  A static form of idealism.
    14.  One set of holy/sacred scriptures.
    15.  All scriptures regarded as of equal merit.
    16.  Standardization of intimacy.
    17.  Intimacy exclusively in heterosexual marriages.
    18.  Standardization of sexuality in public & private.
    19.  Standardization  of religious beliefs &  rituals.
    20.  Equal respect for all religious belief & rituals.
    21.  Respect for one dominant religious institution.
    22.  Disrespect for all religious institutions.
    23.  Locating ultimate authority outside human realms.
    24.  Locating ultimate authority inside human realms.
    25.  Etc.

     Western human history includes many periods of tragic
coercion and violence; e.g.,

     1.  Upper and Lower Egypt Wars before unification.
     2.  Babylonian wars of expansion.
     3.  Greek-Roman wars.
     4.  Wars of expansion of the Muslim Empire
     4.  Crusades of Christians into the Middle East.
     5.  Conflicts between Christians and Jews
     6.  World War I and II.
     7.  Later American Military efforts in Mid East.

    Any  serious  student can do research on the costs  of 
wars  in  terms  of deaths and injuries  to  the  official 
combatants  (members  of   well  organized and  officially 
sanctioned  armies)  and deaths and injuries to  civilians 
who  are  just  the  victims of  colateral  damage.    
    
    The  historical  trend  is  that the more  modern  and 
"selective" the weapons have been designed to be (and more 
overall destructive they are at the same time)  the larger 
is  the fraction of all deaths and  injuries  suffered  by 
civilians who are  just  the victims  of colateral damage; 
whether on/near the battle field --- of suffering degraded 
infrastructures  and health services because of  the  war.   
The trend is away from officially declaring in advance and 
carrying out "just-wars"  which meet the official criteria 
of  "just-wars".    The more modern and   destructive  our 
weapons have become, the less "just" our wars have become. 

    In light of the above it is clear that humankind needs
to  find/create  more  effective WAYS  of  truly  settling
differences    over-the-long-term   between    domineering
peoples;  or to WAYS to  truly  transcend  The  Domination
System  of  domineering peoples.   It is clear that  long-
term-successful  WAYS  will NOT depend in  essential  ways
upon:

     1.  Coercion,
     2.  Violence,
     3.  Dishonesty,
     4.  Pretentiousness,
     5.  Arrogance,
     6.  Secrecy,
     7.  Collusions,
     8.  Military-Industrial-Complexes,
     9.  Concentrations of Wealth & Power,
    10.  Domination,
    11.  Knowledge of who is Good and Who is Evil.

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