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%DILEMMAS RESPONDING VIOLENCE HONORABLE SUCCESS SIN 070129
 %CLAIM CREDIT SHOW RESPECT ENVY COVET IGNORE COSTS 070129
%ALIENATION HIGHER VALUE FULL DESTRUCTION SACRIFICE 070129
 %MYTH REDEMPTIVE COERCION ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUS 070129

     We  will  continue to have dilemmas in  dealing  with
violence ---  so long as it is  regarded as honorable  for
individuals and groups of people to:

 1.  Claim credit for the successful use of violence.
 2.  Show respect for the successful use of violence.
 3.  Envy violent people for their alienative successes.
 4.  Ignore the alienation engendered by violence.
 5.  Not challenge violence in terms of higher values.
 6.  Ignore the full-costs of destruction due to violence.
 7.  Ignore what is sacrificed when violence is honored.
 8.  Honor the Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence in any form.
 9.  Honor the Myth-of-Redemptive-Coercion in any form.
10.  Honor the initiation of threats and/or attacks.

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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