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     By   being   defensive  people  attempt  to   achieve
security.  The  defensive  kind of security is a defective
kind of security,  because  it  leads to arms  races which
give evidence of a  basic  insecurity  on  the part of the
participants.

     The  insecurity  of  people who  are  always  on  the
defensive indicates the values of security with freedom to
be  vulnerable,   genuine  security.   The  value  of  any
particular  kind  of security depends upon the  advantages
which  it  offers  in  comparison to the  costs  which  it
generates.  The defensive kind of security leads to costly
arms races, social insecurity, the threats of war, and the
disintegration  of the foundations for  genuine  security.
No  matter  how attractive defensive security  appears  to
paranoid people it is not a good buy.

     It  is dangerous for a community to turn to  paranoid
people to ask them to lead the community in its efforts to
achieve security.   Paranoids will lead in ways which will
undermine   personal  and  communal  integrity,   and   so
undermine  the possibility of genuine security.    Genuine
security   occasions   the  freedom  to   be   vulnerable.
Paranoids  are  incapable  of enjoying the freedom  to  be
vulnerable.   They can not imagine genuine security and so
lead  people  away  from the ways which  lead  to  genuine
security,  and lead instead in the ways of fear which they
do know very well.
                                                                                                                               
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