spheres of influence and responsibility. circles and levels, ever growing and encompassing. forest and trees, resolution of data points, data mining, small variations mean nothing when the scale grows large, standard deviations, trying to do what's right. self. significant other. family. friends. church groups, teammates. neighbors. city, state, regional. national. international. racial, socioeconomiic. religious. ethnic. ideological, political, humanitarian, speciation, vertebrate, animal, natural, man made, technological, scientific, artistic, predilection, fetish, orientation. groupings. overlapping, overloading. trying to mesh them all, feedback loops, interference, encompass, envelop, reject and rejoice. what takes precedence, what means more than the next, the greater good, all things being equal, you say yes to all, but all things are not equal, uneven, unfair, so what gets the short shrift?