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  %DESCRIPTIVE PROSCRIPTIVE PROSCRIPTIVE STATEMENTS 040715
%INFORMAL FAMILY CLASS FRIEND MARRIAGE INTIMATE SEX 040715
  %GROUP COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION BUSINESS PROFESSION 040715
%RELIGION INSTITUTION CITY PROVINCES STATES NATIONS 040715
%ASSOCIATION FAIL DEMONSTRATE PERSONAL INTEGRITY IT 040715
%ESSENTIAL VIRTUES VICES FOUNDATIONS INTEGRITY GODS 040715

    1.  The statements  in  this  essay   are  offered  as
descriptive,   rather  than prescriptive  or  proscriptive
statements.

    2.  To the extent that we as members of  any formal or
informal:   family,   class,  friendship-group,  marriage,
intimate-group,    community,   organization,    business,
profession,  religion, institution, city, province, state,
nation,  association,  etc.  ---  treat statements such as
these statements as being prescriptive and/or proscriptive
statements --- we thereby fail to demonstrate personal and
communal integrations and integrities.

    3.  To  the   extent that we fail or refuse  to  honor
statements  such  as these  as accurately descriptive   of
our own lives together as the Crew-of-Spaceship-Earth  ---
we  thereby behave as:   domineering,   coercive, violent,
manipulative,  dishonest,   arrogant,      self-righteous,
contentious,    collusive,     addictive,     codependent,
militaristic,   and  otherwise  disintegrative-people-and-
communities.

    4.  Our-essential-virtues which are the foundations of
our personal-and-communal integrations-and-integrities ---
include    our-inter-dependent   combinations-of-mutually-
complementary-virtues  such  as: cooperation,  gentleness,
honesty, humility, forgiveness,  tolerance,  non-violence,
peacemaking,    personal-and-communal-inter-   dependence,
conflict-resolution, generosity,  hospitality,   civility,
balance,  mutuality, distributive-justice,   and many more
well-integrated-mutually-complementary-virtues.

    5.  We  disintegrate  to the extent that  we  contend-
together-to-achieve-for-ourselves      personal     and/or
communal:     invulnerability,     superiority,     power-
concentrations,  power-coalitions,  wealth-concentrations;
salvation, tickets-into-heaven, nirvana, perfection, unity
or  some-other-good ---   at-the-expense-of-people-who-are
more-vulnerable-than-we-are.

    6.  In  opposition  to  our virtues we all  too  often
affirm in  formal-and-informal-ways the advantages-to-our-
selves  of our-vices such as:  contentiousness,  violence,
coercion, pretentiousness,  arrogance,  intolerance,  war-
making,    Military-Industrial-Complexes,    independence,
invulnerability,        conflict-maintenance,       greed,
exclusivity,   terrorism,  extremism, retributive-justice,
punishments, reward-economies, award-communities, cliques,
caste-systems,  and many more disintegrative-vices.

    7.  We  disintegrate  both personally  and  communally
when we  refuse to,  or fail to,  be involved in  open and
honest dialogue with  people  whom we label  and/or regard
as:  inferior,  second-rate,  second-class,  sub-standard,
imperfect,   non-conformists,  different,  evil,   devils,
enemies,   immoral,   defective,   threatening,   unclean,
contaminated,  soiled, poisoned, defiled, impure,   wrong,
etc.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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