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 %RELATIVE IMPORTANCE CONTEXT SITUATION VALUE IDEAL 041109
 %PRIORITY PRINCIPLE HELPFUL INTEGRATIVE RECONCILED 041109
 %COOPERATE COLLABORATE HEAL HEALTHY MUTUAL BALANCE 041109
  %COHERENCE RESPECT TRUST REVERENCE GENEROUS CIVIL 041109
    %BEHAVIOR DESIRES INTENTIONS ATTITUDES JUDGMENT 041109
%DETERMINE CONTROL DOMINATE MANAGE RESCUE SALVATION 041109

     Within each context/situation the relative importance
of each potentially-important value, ideal, principle,
etc. --- depends upon which ones will be most helpful and
integrative in promoting and facilitating:

     1.  Reconciliation, cooperation and collaboration.
     2.  Healing and health,
     3.  Personal-and-communal Integrations-&-integrities,
     4.  Distributive-justice,
     5.  Mutuality-and-balance,
     6.  Coherence, respect, trust, and reverence,
     7.  Generosity, hospitality and civility, etc.

     Within our own contexts and/or situations those
behaviors, preoccupations, desires, intentions, attitudes,
etc. which stand in the way of promoting and facilitating
the above desiderata --- do NOT merit as much respect,
trust or reverence --- as those will which will be most
helpful and integrative in the promoting and facilitation
of the above desiderata.

     Priorities cannot be set wisely in a manner which is
divorced from our own current context and/or situation.
Rank-ordering of priorities cannot be done prudently,
wisely or helpfully without regard for our own current
context or situation.  It is IDOLATROUS to worship any
truth, ideal, value, principle to be treated as an
ABSOLUTE and/or ULTIMATE-CONCERN --- without regard for
our own current context or situation.

     Thus, no ONE book, authority, scripture, doctrine,
commandment, prescription or community can define  what
should be the nature of our ULTIMATE-CONCERN.  Domineering
people who are idolators will, of course, disagree with
the importance of this spectrum of considerations ---
because they want to be dominant and in control so as to
accumulate FOR-THEMSELVES more power, wealth and
privilages by undermining: distributive-justice, honesty,
gracious-dialogue, mutual-understandings, balance, health,
healing, etc.

     In light of the above, we cannot determine for other
people what should be their priorities, any more than they
can determine for us what should be our priorities.  None
of us can be helpfully DOMINANT or IN-CONTROL.  All
attempts by people to be DOMINANT or IN-CONTROL are
ultimately: alienative, prejudicial, biased and
disintegrative.  EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS flow from all such
efforts.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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