I have received another response to my synergy blog. This is from my closest friend, Susan:

"Your mom is correct in that synergy can be both positive and negative, but destruction is not always a negative thing."

Here are some examples she gave me: blasting a hole through a mountain to build a road, toppling an old building to replace it with a new one, scuttling a ship so that it can become an artifical reef

This is why I "talk." I love responses! Think, think, think ...... it's a good thing. My new word for this day is scuttle (verb).
Scuttle - to cut a hole in the deck, side, or bottom (of a ship) in order to sink