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When we are victims of:

Wars          Terrorism         Domination        Arrogance          Self-Righteousness         Pretentiousness

Prejudice     Biases            Ignorance         Provincialism      Confusion                  Hubris

Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception          Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes

It is always important that we make concerted-cooperative-efforts to assess the costs to everybody's families and to all

communal integrities --- due to the evolving patterns in the above realities; in comparison to the possible patterns of:

 1. Being-Graciously-Together cooperating in the Communal-Sanctuaries-of-Shalom.

 2. Open and Honest Dialogues about all of the basic humane needs for all members of the Crew of Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth.

 3. Patterns of Gobble Mutually-Agreeable-Cooperation and Collaborations through Mitigating-our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts.

 4. Gracious-Processes of Integration throughout God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.

 5. Investing in Adequate-Housing for all members of the Crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.

 6. Investing in Basic-Health-Care for all members of the Crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.

 7. Investing in Basic-Education for all of the children of the Crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.

 8. Investing in the Integration of Diverse Peoples into the lives of all Neighborhoods within Space-Ship-Earth.

 9. Investing in Inter-Religious Open-and-Honest-Dialogues within all Neighborhoods within Space-Ship-Earth.

10. Investing in Long-Term-Sustainable Civility-and-Civilizations within all Neighborhoods within Space-Ship-Earth.

All failures to make the above INVESTMENTS augment the breeding grounds for the augmentation of terrorists and terrorism.

Most people who have developed traditional systems of: (1) Ethics, (2) Morality, (3) Etiquette and (4) Propriety --- have 
failed to be truly helpful - - - to-the-extent-that they have failed to give-adequate-consideration to the following
complicated;  but usually present factors:

 1. The ways in which Domineering-Bullies of all kinds can take advantage of any Prescriptive-System related to humans
    making their own considered choices regarding: priorities, ideals, values, perspectives, principles, attitudes, 
    assumptions, etc.

 2. The difficulties in speaking adequately in relevant ways to the ways in which people and their inherited: traits, 
    abilities, disabilities, dispositions, ideals, values, principles, visions, virtues, vices, injuries, and greed
    - - - are different - - - - in ways which complicate how we can Mitigating-our-own-Alienative-Conflicts.

 3. The difficulties in speaking adequately and in relevant ways to the ways in which people's healthy and well-integrated
    relationships and patterns-of-healthy-intimacies - - - are different in both obvious and subtle ways - - - that 
    are not easy to understand or guide - - - in formal/prescriptive ways that Domineering-Bullies are willing to deal with 
    through gracious open-and-honest-dialogues.

 4. The ways in which scientific discoveries, descriptions and technological developments in regards to: communication,
    information-processing, human-evolutions, evolving-medical-care, etc. have introduced unexpected new dilemmas and 
    alienative-conflicts among young people --- and other people who are trying to maintain traditional ancient: 
    perspectives, values, ideals, assumptions, principles, myths, parables, theologies, virtues and ways of talking about 
    transcendent-realities and centers-of-traditional-authority.