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We may respect various realities in limited ways and contexts for various reasons; without 
honoring them fully or showing them reverence within every context:

(1) People may think clearly, but start from false premises and/or evidence; and so arrive 
logically at false-conclusions that lead to tragically: alienative, contentious, violent, and/or
disintegrative outcomes.

(2) People may start from true premises and/or evidence and be motivated by greed and/or anger
to "reason" in incoherent ways; that lead to tragically alienative, contentious, violent and/or
disintegrative outcomes.

(3) People may start with true premises, evidence, beliefs and coherent patterns of logic --- but 
become complicit in what are to them invisible Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception ---
that lead to tragically: alienative, contentious, violent and/or disintegrative relationships and
outcomes --- of tragically mis-understood kinds.

We often need to moderate our levels of: honor, respect, support, trust, enthusiasm, loyalty and
reverence --- because we recognize the ABSENCE of: 

(1) Essential Truths-and-Participants,
(2) Balance and Mutually-Supportive truths - - - - that are Mutually-Complementary,
(3) Mutually-Supportive CLUSTERS of: virtues, ideals, values, principles, hopes, and intentions;
(4) Mutually-Complementary forms of Health-and-Integrity: Physiological, Mental, Family, 
    Religious, Spiritual, Political, Economic, Dietary, Ideological, Technological, Environmental
    and other unnamed forms.