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%PRIORITY SETTING COSTS BENEFITS RISKS DANGERS GODS 051202
%IDOLS IDOLATRY PERSONAL GAIN SUCCESS LOSS LOSE WIN 051202
%COMPLEMENTARY GOODS EVILS DEVIL ENEMY ATTACK ALIEN 051202
%FRIEND NEIGHBOR WIFE HUSBAND CHILDREN FAMILY TRIBE 051202
%NATION ARMY NAVY WAR TRUST FEAR ESTRANGEMENT STATE 051202
%MUTUALLY ASSURED NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION VIOLENCE GODS 051202

     We  need always-to-keep-in-mind that there-are-always
alternative-benefits-and-costs; and be humble:

     1.  If  we spend our time one way;  we  cannot  spend
that time another way.

     2.  If  we spend our money one way;  we cannot  spend
that money another way.

     3.  If  we focus our attention one way;  we cannot at
the same time focus our attention in another way.

     4.  If  we  follow one budget for a year,  we  cannot
follow an alternative budget during the same year.

     To  evaluate  whether  any proposed  course-of-action
will  be  "good"  without asking if it will be  better  or
worse than any other course of action ---  is to evade the
real  questions  of life.   All "goods"  are  relative  to
alternative "goods"  ---  along with the associated  costs
and benefits for-all-the-people-who-will-be-affected.  Who
can  weigh  ALL of the costs and benefits for all  of  the
alternatives --- and judge which will over-ALL be "best".

     By what standards are we or anybody else to weigh all
of  the  alternatives and compare each alternative's  NET-
COST  and NET-BENEFIT to ALL-people-who-matter?   Shall we
ignore the:  poor,  homeless,  hungry,  imprisoned,  sick,
alienated, estranged, excommunicated, dis-possessed,  ill,
possessed, thirsty, abused, marginalized, etc?

     By  what  standards and guide-lines are we to  set  a
course  of setting-priorities which are:  wise,   prudent,
gracious, just, kind, integrative, healthy, compassionate,
etc?   Who can know?    What difference does it make as to
who knows?
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)


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