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This-essay is a9703102.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RESPOND TRANSCEND ESCAPE REACT EVIL DEED BEHAVIOR+970310 %GOOD CONFORMITY COERCION VIOLENCE CONTROL DISCIPLE+970310 %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATE CONDEMN FAIL 970310 How can we respond to evil --- in ways which are integrative, liberating, transcendent, and healthy? If we regard evil as having to do with some form of a failure to conform --- we are likely to respond to what we regard as being evil --- in ways which try to control people's evil behaviors. Our understanding/beliefs are likely to lead us into coercive and violent patterns of behaviors---which generate ALIENATION; which is the root and essence of all that is evil. Thus regarding evil as having to do with some form of failure to conform is tragically misleading. If we regard evil as an attribute of particular people, actions, places, ideas, thoughts, desires, and groups --- we are likely to respond to what we regard as being evil --- in ways which try to segregate all that is evil --- away from all that we regard as good. Our understanding/beliefs are likely to lead us into alienative activities as we seek to alienate our selves from all people and groups whom we have labeled as being "evil". Alienative activities generate alienation; which is the root and essence of all that is evil. Thus regarding evil as an attribute of particular people, places, ideas, thoughts, desires and groups --- is tragically misleading. If we regard evil as a pollution which can pollute people, places, ideas, thoughts, desires and groups --- we are likely to respond to what we regard as --- evil by trying to remove the pollutant from people, places, ideas, thoughts, desires and groups; by whatever means may be necessary. Our understanding/beliefs are likely to lead us into activities which do violence to the integrities of people and communities about whom we are ignorant and whom we do not understand---because we have not engaged in open and honest dialogue with them about their and our unique experiences, perceptions, insights, attitudes, assumptions, hopes, aspirations, desires, and fears. If we regard evil as being rooted in and flowing from alienative relationships between people---we are likely to respond to evil in the presence of God who is Love --- and transcend evil through Love. Love which works through forgiveness, reconciliation, conflict resolution, and the exchange of security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable in open and honest dialogue. People need the freedom to talk safely about their own personal experiences, perceptions, insights, attitudes, assumptions, hopes, aspirations, desires, and fears. Love works towards personal and communal integrity. Alienative relationships lead towards personal and communal disintegration. Our personal and communal integrity depend upon how we regard evil and how we respond to what we regard as evil. Many "good" people are tragically misled by how they regard evil --- and how they respond to what they regard as evil. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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