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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9611241.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.} ========================================================== %BASIS COMMUNITY INTEGRITY INCLUDE EXCLUDE ACCEPT+961124 %REJECT DIALOGUE INTIMACY TRUST FEAR ENEMY FRIEND 961124 Each community struggles with what is the basis for its communal integrity, and what might undermine its communal integrity. Does its integrity depend upon unity in conformity? Does integrity depend upon everybody agreeing with everybody else about: beliefs, life styles, behavior patterns, kinds of relationships, dress, make-up, jewelry, etc? Whom should a community trust; not trust? Whom should a community include in communal dialogue? Exclude from communal dialogue? Who are the enemies of a community---inside the community, outside the community? The integrity of a community depends greatly upon how its members define their community and try to protect their community. Often, members of a community try to define their community and try to protect their community in ways which ultimately undermine the integrity of their community. In such instances the members have not understood the truly robust grounds for personal and communal integrity. Communal integrity and personal integrity are inseparably interdependent. Neither kind of integrity can be sacrificed to promote the other kind of integrity. Too often members of a community are willing to sacrifice the integrity of a member of the community with indifference---in efforts to protect the integrity of their community. Such members do not understand how personal integrity and communal integrity are inseparably interdependent. Such a lack of understanding can lead ultimately to both communal and personal disintegration. Attempts to defend communal integrity in the absence of such an understanding are attempts which are likely to backfire in tragic ways. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================