Essence of moral conflict

Negative Factors

Menace
Impressions of danger to one’s well-being and survival.
Uncertainty
Impressions, or atmosphere, generated by events that appear ambiguous, erratic, contradictory, unfamiliar, chaotic, etc.
Mistrust
Atmosphere of doubt and suspicion that loosens human bonds among members of an organic whole or between organic wholes.

Counterweights

Initiative
Internal drive to think and take action without being urged.
Adaptability
Power to adjust or change in order to cope with new or unforeseen circumstances.
Harmony
Interaction of apparently disconnected events or entities in a connected way.

Aim

  • Pump-up friction via negative factors to breed fear, anxiety, and alienation in order to generate many non-cooperative centers of gravity, as well as subvert those that adversary depends upon, thereby sever moral bonds that permit adversary to exist as an organic whole.

Simultaneously,

  • Build-up and play counterweights against negative factors to diminish internal friction, as well as surface courage, confidence, and esprit, thereby make possible the human interactions needed to create moral bonds that permit us, as an organic whole, to shape and adapt to change.
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