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Course Keys **** Some words often suggest/or mean different things to different people. To make a sail-boat "fast" has often ment "to tie it down and make it nearly stationary". To a race-car-drive to make a race-car "fast" would mean to make it capable of moving at faster-speeds on the race-track. To Egocentric people the word "good" is likely to mean "pleases-me", and the word "evil" is likely to mean "offends-me". To the CEO of a large corporation "good" is likely to mean "net-profitable" and the word "evil" is likely to mean "net-loss" to the "bottom-line". To Domineering-Bullies "good" is likely to mean "submissive" and "evil" is likely to mean "offensive", "rebellious", and/or "resistance". To Managers and Perfectionists "good" is likely to mean "conforming" and "evil" is likely to mean "NOT-conforming" and/or "rebellious. To Terrorists "good" is likely to suggest "destructive" and "evil" is likely to suggest "failed-bomb". To True-Lovers "good" is likely to suggest "integrative" and "evil" is likely to suggest "disintegrative". To Mathematicians "good" is likely to suggest "accurate" and "evil" is likely to suggest "not-accurate". To Artists "good" is likely to suggest "beautiful" and "evil" is likely to suggest "ugly". To the extent that we are isolated by the differences in what words mean an/or suggest to us; we cannot communicate and/or cooperate well with each other, and we are likely to be trapped by alienative-conflicts which we cannot understand and/or mitigate in any gracious way - - - because "messages-sent" are not received as meaning the same thing as the"message-sent" ment to the sender. The sender and receiver may have no clue that there has been a Mis-Communication - - - and be offended when each other behaves in apparently incoherent and offensive ways that make no sense at all. They may conclude that each other cannot be trusted, honored or worked-with in any reliable way; and that open-and-honest-dialogues must be avoided in order to be "secure" = "safe" = "invulnerable" through the use of superior defenses.