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  %CONFESS SECURE CONTEXT FREEDOM VULNERABLE ADDICT+931015
       %REQUIRE INSTITUTION AUTHORITY POWER BALANCE 931015

     It is  good to enjoy secure contexts in which one  is
free to be safely vulnerable; for in such contexts one can
confess one's mistakes, transgressions, mid-deeds, etc. In
such a secure context one can learn from such experiences.

     It   does  not  follow  that  it  is  good   for   an
authoritarian  institution  to institute  requirements  of
confession  by people of little power to people of greater
power.   Such an institution creates an imbalance of power
which  does not promote secure contexts where  people  can
properly feel free to be safely vulnerable.  Rather,  such
an  institution  encourages  various  collusive  games  of
mutual self deception.  Confession by the weak in power to
the  great  in  power  among humans is not  likely  to  be
helpful,   especially  when such confession is required by
the great in power.

     It is healthy to give the gifts of security known  as
the freedom to be safely vulnerable,  and to receive  such
gifts;   for in the giving and receiving of such gifts new
contexts   are   created  in   which   through   uncovered
confessions people can learn much from their own and other
people's   mistakes,    mis-deeds,    transgressions   and
tragedies.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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