Consciousness is somewhat like a variable-power rifle telescope - it can be trained upon various aspects of our environment at various powers. All of them are a reality, and a separate reality.

It is the programming behind the information received by the which makes for integrity.

A suicide bomber blowing up a "friendly" outpost is perceived as cowardly, whereas a drone strike blowing up a house is a blow for freedom. A mind with integrity can see them as the same kind of acts, each designed to preserve it's own parochial interests.

It's in the area of judgment where we get into trouble. As with "original sin", the knowledge of right and wrong. That is our curse, and that is why we start blinding ourselves with contradictions. We are right, they are wrong, and that's that!! The GWB foreign policy.

The reality is that GWB is "right" for him, those who oppose are "right" for them, and neither is truly "right". And there is no contradiction there if one is watching. For those in the trenches this is all bullshit, but only fools are in the trenches any longer than necessary. No sense sacrificing out integrity or lives for their agenda, no matter who "they" are.