This is http://www.essayz.com/b0712201.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %MULTIPLE LINKAGES BETWEEN CAUSES EFFECTS MORE STEP 071220 %MULTIPLE STEPS INTERACTIONS PROCESSES TEST SYSTEMS 071220 %ANALYSIS COMPLEX REFLEXIVE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 071220 %MORALITY ETHICS CIVILIZATION DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE 071220 %TRAGIC MYTHS REGARDING REDEMPTIVE VIOLENCE CONTROL 071220 %WARS ATTACKS PUNISHMENTS EXCOMMUNICATIONS ISOLATED 071220 Causes-Effect linkages can involve: one, two, three, or more intermediate steps. How bright it is on the surface of the earth obviously depends upon whether or not the sun is above or close to the horizon at the point on the earth --- when considering just-one-step for light to get from the sun to the surface of the earth. But at night at a point on the surface of the earth light can go from the sun to the moon and then to the earth in-two-steps; and so how bright it is on the earth depends upon how high in the sky the sun is --- and upon what is the phase of the moon and how high in the sky the moon is. There are many possible two-step cause-effect-linkages. How healthy a family may be depends upon how well educated its members are. It also depends upon healthy its neighbors are and how hospitable-generous-networked its neighbors are --- and on what role for-profit-insurance plays in its nation's health care. The USA has sicker families than most other nations --- because its citizens are less hospitable, gracious and are carrying the burdens generated by for-profit-health-care-insurance programs. Some religions entail one-step-morality-training; focusing directly upon human behaviors. Other religions entail two-or-more-step-morality-training; focusing only indirectly through theological-statements upon human behaviors; but not addressing alienative-human-behaviors directly in terms of: honesty, generosity, hospitality, dialogue, cooperation, sympathy, empathy, etc. --- in direct affirmations of and demonstrations of virtuous behaviors; or upon pretense, greed, systemic- insensitivity, domination, contentiousness, violence, indifference, and other vices entailed in alienative behaviors. Modern-Scientists view cause-effect-relationships to be explainable in terms of some form of measurable-kind-of- energy literally traveling from one place to another; e.g. physical-contacts, fluid-flows, light, infra-red- radiation, ultra-violet-light, micro-waves; and collisions of: electrons, protons, neutrons, neutrinos, solid- objects, liquids, gases, etc. In such a view, in the absence of any known kind of energy-traveling-between- places; there is no cause and no effect. Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ==========================================================