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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8905131.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.} ========================================================== %GOOD CONFORM COERCE CONTROL MANIPULATE EVIL LOVE 890513 It is not good to be conformed to any conception of what it means to be good. Conformity entails coercion, manipulation, control, and violence which in turn entail misleading behaviors, dishonesty, defensiveness and disintegration of persons and communities. Conformity entails much that is not good, even when the standards for conformity are apparently very good standards. It is not good to be conformed to any conception of what it means to be good, no matter how good the standards may be. To be conformed is to be coerced, manipulated, controlled, violated. To be authentic is to be yourself as a whole person; not to be conformed to some pattern which is inconsistent with yourself as a whole person. To be authentic you need to be yourself, true to your own experiences, perceptions, feelings, beliefs, and thoughts. If you cannot be true to what is most essentially your own, to what can you be true? To have integrity as a person and to contribute to the integrity of your community, you need to be a whole being free of internal conflicts between a desire to be true to your own nature, and a desire to achieve acceptance by yielding to pressures to conform to that which is not true to your own nature. Being whole is essential to contributing to communal integrity. It is not good to be conformed to any conception of what it means to be good. Communities which think otherwise are disintegrating and usually can not see their own disintegration because they are dishonestly conforming to some conception of themselves as being good. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================