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 %PREREQUISITES TO CONFLICT MITIGATION INTEGRATIONS 080623
 %INTEGRITIES AUTHENTICITY COMMUNAL PERSONAL HEALTH 080623
%EMPATHY SYMPATHY SENSITIVITY CARE CONCERN HOSPITAL 080623
%HOSPITALITY GENEROSITY GIVING SHARING WEALTH POWER 080623

The following are Descriptive-Statements ---  rather  than
prescriptive-or-proscriptive:   statements,  commandments,
and/or demands:

In the face of ultimately/essentially  chaotic-events-and-
circumstances  ---  Reconciling-Love  Makes/Creates  More-
Sense  than  do  the  Alienative-Alternatives  ---   which
include the following Alienative-Alternatives:

 0.  Generations of Blame-Shame-and-Guilt Without-Limit.
 1.  Projections-of-Blame/Shame/Guilt away from One-Self.
 2.  Dumping-of-Blame/Shame/Guilt/Chaos upon/into others.
 3.  Concentrating Blame/Shame/Guilt within-others.
 4.  Concentrating Blame/Shame/Guilt within self/friends.
 5.  Concentrating Wealth and/or Power into self/friends.
 6.  Copying Domineering-Bullies' Attitudes & Life-Styles
 7.  Copying Domineering-Bullies' Assumptions/Beliefs.
 8.  Copying Domineering-Bullies' Kinds-of-Trust/Faith.
 9.  Responding to Alienative-Behaviors with more of them.
10.  Responding to Alienative-Behaviors in Arrogant-Ways.

Domineering-Bullies'-Ways do not truly-MITIGATE conflicts.

We cannot Mitigate-Conflicts so-long-as we:

  Do not understand the natures of the conflicts.
  Do not recognize who and/or what are the elements.
  Do not recognize the conflicting-alternatives.
  Do not recognize the conflicting ideals/ideas/values.
  Do not recognize the conflicting virtues/vices.
  Do not recognize the reconciling-alternatives.
  Are confused, uninformed, biased and/or prejudiced.
  Are blinded by systemic-distributive-injustices.
  Are blinded by systemic-power/wealth-concentrations.
  View ourselves as essentially-superior to others.
  Are insensitive and/or lacking in empathy/sympathy.
  Are arrogant and/or victims-of-self-righteousness.
  Act unilaterally in the ways of Domineering-Bullies.
  Do not Accurately-Describe many of the these realities.
  Play Many-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.
  Perceive/Tolerate many of these realities as "normal".
  Are apathetic about these realities in our lives.
  Are intimidated by these realities in our lives.
  View these as just other-people's dilemmas.
  Fail to distinguish between dilemmas-and-tech-problems.
  Trust technocrats to Solve-Dilemmas Technocratically.
  Trust Domineering-Bullies to deal with our dilemmas.
  Focus only upon technical-issues-and-problems.
  Tolerate exclusivity as a good-defense-mechanism.
  Assume/Believe we can achieve security-unilaterally.
  Assume/Believe we can achieve invulnerability ourselves.
  Assume/Believe we can enjoy security while others do not
  Assume/Believe EVIL exists outside of our relationships.
  Assume/Believe GOOD exists outside of our relationships.
  Assume/Believe we-alone can control our relationships.
  Assume/Believe we need not cooperate with enemies.
  Assume/Believe we need not cooperate with strangers.
  Assume/Believe we need not cooperate with foreigners.
  Assume/Believe our Economic-System is worthy of TRUST.
  Assume/Believe our greed is worthy of TRUST.
  Do not analyze specific conflicts in terms of the above.
  Do not engage in reflexive systems-analysis in LOVE.
  Do not love our strange neighbors as ourselves.
  Do not grant each other equal power/wealth distributions
  Do not share risks/costs roughly equally in our lives.
  Do not share roughly equal rights/privileges/pleasures.
  Do not share roughly equally our perspectives/desires.
  Do not share roughly equally our needs/desires.
  Are not balanced in how we approach each other.

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

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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