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%DISCERNING DESCRIBING RECOGNIZING DISTINGUISHING 050110 %TRUE VIRTUES MERIT RESPECT HONOR REVERENCE SUPPORT 050110 %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 050110 %BALANCE EXTREMISM TERRORISM WAR CONTROL VIOLENCE 050110 %PUNISH REWARD CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE REJECTION SEX 050110 %TRUE LOVERS RESCUE SALVATION REDEMPTION ARROGANCE 050110 %LIBERATE FREEDOM PRISON DOMINATION SYSTEM VIOLENT 050110 True-Virtues merit respect and honor in most settings and circumstances. Profound questions need to be asked and responded to openly and honestly when authentic people fail to show respect and honor for what many people falsely regard as True-Virtues. Real-Vices usually merit no respect or honor in most settings and circumstances. Profound questions need to be asked and responded to openly and honestly when authentic people show much respect and honor for what many people falsely regard as Real Vices. In-between there are many far more ambiguous realities; which some people in some setting regard as virtues. In the in-between-region there are other ambiguous realities which are regarded by some people as vices or virtues. Differing people may regard some of the ambiguous realities as virtues and/or vices; depending upon the settings, circumstances, people and their perspectives. Such differing views of the realities; are their personal calling-cards. The following tabulations are only suggestive of which realities are commonly regarded: as virtues, as ambiguous-realities and as vices. True-Virtues Ambiguous-Realities Real-Vices ================ =================== ================= Kind-honesty Personal-Loyalty Telling-lies Kind-hospitality Tenacity Unilateral-acts Authenticity Certainty Arrogance-Hubris Civility Politeness Contentiousness Transparency Assertive-leadership Domination Mutuality/Balance Self-confidence Taking-control Generosity Conditional-giving Stealing True-Peacemaking Resolving-Conflict Making-demands Exchanging-truths Determining-truths Self-righteous Sacrificial-love Sincerity Extremism True-Integrity Coherence Blind-faith Active-listening Activism Mean-coercion Being-complementary Being-assertive Being-dictatorial True-Integrations Coalition-building Pretentiousness Giving-humble-help Rescuing-others Being-terrorists Sharing-goods Financial-success Greedy-hoarding Knowing-lovers Preaching-love Demanding-love Transcending-evil Identifying-evil Eliminating-evil Healing-relations Ignoring-relations Killing-relations Reconciliations Other-priorities Excommunications Gentle-suggestions Seeing-boundaries Being-dictatorial Being-cooperative Being-spectators Being-violent Offering-hope Being-depressed Being-repressive Personal-clarity Personal-confusion Personal-demands Giving-perspective Provincialism Defending-God Healing-hurts Doing-research Attacking-others The emphasis here is not upon how correct the above characterizations are; but upon the reality of the spectrum from integrative-virtues to dis-integrative- vices; including a range of ambiguous realities which appear differently to different people who have different perspectives because of their different circumstances and faith-journeys. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================