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           %MORAL VULNERABILITY SECURITY VS CONTROL 870426

     Genuine   security  entails  the  freedom  to   enjoy
peaceful intimacy within relationships which entail mutual
vulnerability.

     People  who  believe that it is important to  achieve
and  maintain control become addicted to means which  they
believe  will  guarantee them security in the  absence  of
mutual vulnerability,  openness, and honesty.   Ultimately
such  people  believe that their security and self  esteem
will  be  grounded in defensive measures which  will  give
them  control  over their own security  and  self  esteem.
They  believe  that  only  when they can be proud  of  how
secure they have  made themselves  can they rest and be at
peace.   Yet  their disease of addiction to techniques for
achieving  security  and  self esteem will  not  let  them
relax.    They  always feel that  additional  efforts  and
technologies must be developed to  improve their security.
Additional  defense  initiatives are  always  called  for,
because  they  want  to be in full control  of  their  own
security  viewed as invulnerability.   They can  not  even
trust  their friends to be appropriately on the  defensive
at all times.

     Defensive  people are often disappointed to find that
the friends whom they trusted to distrust the enemy---fail
to  be always distrustful,  become friends with the enemy,
and  even fall in love with the enemy.   Such intimacy and
mutual  vulnerability can not be tolerated if  one  is  to
achieve  total  control of security.   No  member  of  the
defense establishment may be permitted to become  friendly
with the enemy;  for then  there may be security leaks and
security  may  leak  away  through  friendly   encounters.
Security must not be allowed to leak away through security
leaks.    Security  is a limited resource and it  must  be
conserved.  Information upon which  security is based must
not be allowed to leak away.  Secrecy is very important as
a technology for the achievement of security.  Information
control is essential to the achievement of total security.
It  would be good to achieve total information control  to
have total security.

     People  who  lack self esteem find it  impossible  to
achieve  security  through control.   They  also  find  it
impossible to believe that genuine security entails mutual
vulnerability  over which secure people have  no  control;
that  genuine security entails total openness and  honesty
rather than secrecy.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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