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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9005232.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.} ========================================================== %LEGAL MORAL RULES LAW ADDICT CONTROL REJECT SYSTEM 900523 The effect of legal rules and laws, or of a moral or ethical system, depends greatly upon how the people who are most concerned with them make use of them. It is misleading to focus upon legal rules and laws, or moral and ethical injunctions, without at the same time giving careful consideration to the use to which they are put in real lives and personal relationships. Whether or not rules promote or undermine personal and communal integrity depend upon how concerned with integrity are the people who most intimately relate to the rules. Rules which are used as means of manipulative control by addictive personalities become the foci of disintegrative processes; yet it is not the rules of themselves which cause the disintegration, but how they are used. Addicts who want to use rules as means of control are likely to present rules which they call good rules, pretending that rules in and of themselves can properly be called good or bad rules. The more "good" a rule is made to appear to be in and of itself; the more useful it can be to an addict who wants to use it as a means of control. Rules which are recognized as "bad" rules are not useful as means of control; they cannot be used very well to manipulate and control "good" people. Thus confusion regarding whether or not rules in and of themselves may properly be regarded as "good", is one of the tools of manipulation used by addicts. Addicts tend to encourage people to function in terms of rules and laws; and tend to discourage people from discovering ways to cope which transcend legalistic preoccupations and transcend the rejection of people who fail to conform to legalistic expectations. Good people conform. Bad people fail to conform; and should be rejected. Conformists are acceptable. Non-conformists are rejectable. Such attitudes lead to alienation and disintegration of people and their communities. To promote integrity we need to find ways to relate honestly to rules and regulations which avoid rejection and alienation as much as possible. Rules and regulations should not be the tools for addicts to use to try to achieve personal satisfaction through the control of others. The administration of law and the processes of a judicial system should not be used to fulfill addictive urges. If the administration of law and the judicial system are in the hands of addictive persons, they are bound to contribute to the disintegration of their society as they seek to satisfy addictive urges through attempts to exercise control over others. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================