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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8909301.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.} ========================================================== %FAULT BLAME RESPONSIBLE IMPERFECT MISTAKE PUNISH 890930 The integrity of a culture and its members depends greatly upon the attitudes present about imperfections and how members should respond to imperfections. Mistakes often lead to imperfections; but not all imperfections are caused by mistakes. Often people feel that there should be payment made to compensate for mistakes; i.e., the person who made a mistake should pay for the mistake through some form of compensation. The payment may be made by correcting the consequences of the mistakes, monetary compensation, suffering some form of punishment, etc. If payment must be made for every mistake it is important to identify who is responsible for every mistake; and if it is impossible to find the responsible person, a sacrificial lamb must be found. If every imperfection is regarded as the result of a mistake, and if payment must be made for every mistake, it is important to identify who is responsible for every imperfection. In a society which is striving for unreasonable perfection such attitudes lead to much stress and distress. Perfectionists find it impossible to achieve perfection because imperfections are differences between standards and realities. Imperfections are created by setting standards which do not correspond to present realities. If standards are achieved and there are no imperfections in terms of present standards, imperfections are created by raising standards. Perfectionists can never reach perfection because they are always raising their standards. A culture is in for perpetual stress and distress if its members are perfectionists who believe that imperfections are the results of mistakes, and that for every mistake it is important to find who is responsible for the mistake, and that person should pay for the mistake. The culture will disintegrate and its members will disintegrate if the prescribed punishment for serious mistakes is excommunication; i.e., the disintegration of dialogue involving the person(s) identified as responsible for the "discovered" imperfection. The integrity of a culture and its members depends greatly upon the attitudes present about imperfections and how members should respond to imperfections. This is especially so if the imperfection is a lack of integrity in the ideals and values which lead the members of the community the think, feel, and behave as they do. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================