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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8612101.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.} ========================================================== %COLLUSIONS AND TABOOS' INSTRUMENTAL VALUES 861210 Collusions and taboos are tragic instrumental values which lack integrity. It is not helpful to attack collusions and taboos in a direct way, for such attacks will be perceived as attacks upon the noble goals to which the instrumental ideals are dedicated. The people who promote and support collusions and ideals---have not clearly articulated either the ultimate ideals and values which lead them, nor their understanding of the natural laws which govern the processes by which their collusions and taboos are expected to promote the fulfillment of their unarticulated ultimate ideals and values. Absent such clear articulation there is confusion regarding the differences between the ultimate ideals and values as having to do with the promotion of balanced personal and communal integrity on the one hand; and the dynamics by which collusions and taboos are expected to serve as worthy instrumental ideals and values in support of a coherent balance between promoting personal integrity and promoting communal integrity. In its extreme forms the confusion entails believing that the instrumental ideals and values are appropriate foci of reverence and worship; i.e., proper idols to which unquestioning dedication should be directed. To such confused people it is a heresy to question the idols, a violation of the tacit rules of the collusive game of mutual deception, a violation of the rules of the taboos; so the guilty party is judged worthy of excommunication and ultimate alienation, a casting out of the fellowship of the true community. As members of a "true community" are cast out of the community, the community gradually loses its "unity" and ceases to be a comm-unity. The logic of taboos and collusions lack coherence; the logic lacks integrity and can not promote either personal or communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================