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 %FORMS KINDS VULNERABILITY VIOLENCE CRITICISM LOSS+961123
%CONDEMNATION JUDGEMENT ESTRANGEMENT ALIENATION SIN+961123
   %RIDICULE ECONOMIC POLITICAL RELIGIOUS SPIRITUAL+961123
   %ZERO NEGATIVE SUM GAME MISTAKE LOSE FAIL DEVILS 961123

    There are many kinds of vulnerability:


PHYSICAL           PSYCHOLOGICAL       EMOTIONAL

ECONOMIC           POLITICAL           RELIGIOUS

SPIRITUAL          SEXUAL              EMOTIONAL

INTELLECTUAL       LOGICAL             DOMESTIC


     Kinds of vulnerability and kinds  of  threats/attacks
are  associated  with each other.   People seek to  attack
where   others  are  vulnerable;   not  where   they   are
invulnerable.     People thus seek to be  invulnerable  to
each kind of attack in ways which correspond to the  kinds
of  attack.    Thus  people are defensive  in  ways  which
correspond  to  the kinds of attack which  they  fear  are
likely to occur---regardless  of how  likely they they are
to  occur  in fact.     It is fears  which  lead  to being
defensive---even   though   the fears may not   correspond
to objective grounds for fears.

     People  fear  being  vulnerable to various  kinds  of
attack, and so people fear various kinds of vulnerability.

     Rarely  do  people acknowledge that  being  defensive
does  not  overcome the fears of being  vulnerable.     In
fact,    being    defensive    is  an   overt   sign   and
acknowledgment   of  continuing   to have fears  of  being
vulnerable.      Fears  of being   vulnerable   are    not
overcome    by    achieving  invulnerability.     On   the
contrary,  attempting to achieve invulnerability   usually
heightens     fears    of    being  vulnerable---for   one
person's  attempt to be  invulnerable makes  other  people
feel  even more vulnerable,  and leads to them being  more
defensive and offensive.   It is not even a zero sum game;
it  is a negative sum game,  with all people losing in the
end.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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