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%KINDS OF PROHIBITIONS 771228
Prohibitions are designed to protect people's rights.
Murder and physical attack clearly violate the victim's
welfare and are prohibited. Theft and/or doing damage to
a person's body and/or property also violates the victim's
welfare and integrity, are prohibited---even though the
person may be untouched. The propriety of prohibitions
becomes more questionable the more indirect the violation
of the person's welfare, and the more the "victim" has
control of the consequences of the "violation".
Verbal attacks are often not prohibited because the
mature person has a great deal of control over the effect
of a verbal attack. Slander which is very damaging to the
reputation of a victim and over which the victim has
little control is an exception, and is commonly
prohibited. Speaking the truth is generally not
prohibited, even if it be damaging to some person's
appearance or respectability.
Sometimes people are offended by becoming aware of
behavior which they find offensive. Knowledge of what will
offend another may be used to disturb them---by behaving
in ways which will offend them. If we regard our emotions
as the consequence of other people's behavior---and at the
same time regard some emotions as good---while other
emotions are bad---we have then set the stage for
prohibiting the eliciting of "bad" emotions.
Emotions are neither "good" nor "bad". Emotions
reveal us, just as speaking the truth about ourselves can
in part reveal us. The truth about ourselves may be
disturbing to another person --- but that is not grounds
for the prohibition of speaking the truth. The emotional
truth about ourselves may be disturbing to another person,
but that is not grounds for prohibition of the revelation
of such emotional truths. Emotional truths are not "good"
or "bad", they are truths. To attempt to deny or repress
such truths is unwise. To prohibit "bad" emotions is
foolish. To try to prohibit people from occasioning "bad"
emotions is foolish.
In general a person should not be held accountable
for the emotions they occasion in another person, unless
malicious intent is clearly evident. A conscious effort
to violate another person's emotional well-being may be
just as damaging as a physical attack, but is much harder
to adjudicate.
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