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   %RECOGNIZE HELPFUL VIRTUES VARIETY INTER RELATED 050528
 %BALANCE BUDGET SPEND MONEY TIME RESOURCE PRIORITY 050528
  %UNITY DIVERSITY DAILY HABIT RISK CAUTION CAUTION 050528
 %AFFIRM CRITIC CREATE TRADITION MUTUAL COOPERATION 050528
%RESPECT HONOR GIVE RECEIVE HOSPITAL PRIOR TOLERATE 050528
%INTEGRITY IDEAL VALUE PARADIGM BELIEF HABIT ACCEPT 050528

     It  is helpful to recognize that various virtues  are
often  relevant to a variety  of inter-related situations;
not just to one situation:

     1.  BALANCE   is   relevant   to:     spending-money,
budgeting,   spending-time,   using-resources,    setting-
priorities,   unity-vs-diversity,  daily-habits,  risk-vs-
caution,     affirmations-vs-criticisms,    creativity-vs-
traditions, etc.

     2.  MUTUALITY    is   relevant   to:     cooperation,
collaboration,    respect,  honoring,    giving-receiving,
hospitality, acceptance, tolerance, etc.

     3.  INTEGRITY is relevant to:  persons, communities,
ideals,  values,  paradigms,  beliefs, habits, priorities,
health, shalom, etc.

     4.  GENEROSITY is  relevant  to:  listening, sharing,
honor,   respect,  tolerance,  unifications,  cooperation,
collaboration, appreciation, inclusion, integrity, health,
shalom, etc.

     We   cannot  enjoy  shalom,    health,    meaningful-
relationships,  security,  vulnerability, etc. ---  in the
absence  of  a  coherent  web  of  the  kinds  of   inter-
relationships hinted at above.

     In  the  absence  of coherent webs of  the  kinds  of
inter-relationships  hinted  at  above  we  are  prone  to
thoughtlessly tolerate SYSTEMIC-PROBLEMS such as:

     1.  Homelessness,
     2.  Poverty,
     3.  Hunger,
     4.  Mental-diseases,
     5.  Wars,
     6.  Domination-Systems,
     7.  Military-Industrial-Complexes,
     8.  Ignorance,
     9.  Run-down-schools,
    10.  Unemployment,
    11.  Over-priced-health-care,
    12.  Alienative-wealth-concentrations,
    13.  Corrupting-power-concentrations,
    14.  Preventable-diseases,
    15.  Gang-warfare,
    16.  Political-power-for-sale,
    17.  Disintegrative-advertising,
    18.  Religious-wars,
    19.  Sex-based-profitable-businesses,
    20.  Alienative-theologies.

     Some problems can be "solved" by a specific objective
action like tightening a nut  or  putting water on a fire.
Systemic-problems  cannot  be solved by such any  isolated
specific objective action.   To resolve a systemic-problem
usually requires getting diverse  people to cooperate with
each  other in  new ways which they have not  imagined  as
being possible.

     VIRTUES often form  coherent-webs  with each other in
ways which mitigate VICES which form dis-integrative-webs.
Mitigations of systemic-problems may be possible only  via
the  formation  of  coherent-webs-of-virtues  to  mitigate
VICES which form dis-integrative-webs.

     The  above  considerations suggest that  it  will  be
helpful for us to become aware of  the  possible coherent-
webs of  VIRTUES; and aware of the ways in which VICES may
form disintegrative-webs which  can be  mitigated only via
the formation of appropriate coherent-webs-of-virtues.

     Talking about these  realities  can be complicated by
the subtle differences  in  the connotations  to different
people  of  the  various words  which  have  evolved  from
keywords; e.g., integer,  fraction, integrity, fractional,
integration,    fractious,   integrative,    fractionator,
integrities,    segregation,   separation,   integrations,
integrators,   apart,   apartheid,  etc.   People who have
different   cultural   backgrounds  with  regard  to   the
relationships   between   ethnic  groups  are   bound   to
experience  different connotations  when  confronted  with
some  of  the  above words.   How are they to  know  about
and/or  understand  each other's  experiences  as  regards
those  different  connotations?   How are they  to  become
aware of the possibilities  ways  of mitigating the tragic
consequences     of disintegrative-webs  of  VICES via the
formation  of  appropriate  coherent-webs-of-virtues which
can be pointed  to  only with words whose connotations are
made    ambiguous   because   of   contrasting    cultural
backgrounds.
                         (c) 2004 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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