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%MAKE MORE VULNERABLE UNDERMINE SECURITY BULLY EVIL+990512
%TERRORIST SINNER COERCIVE ARROGANT SELF-RIGHTEOUS+990512
%VIOLENCE PRESSURE FORCE DEMAND PUNISH THREATEN+990512
%FREEDOM SAFELY OPEN HONEST INTIMACY FRIENDSHIPS 990512
We have no generally used word to refer to the
process of making a person more vulnerable than they
already are; e.g. to deny them their right to:
1. Legal counsel,
2. Remain silent when falsely accused,
3. Exercise freedoms of press, speech, petition,
and peaceable assembly,
4. Chose their own friends,
5. Know what their rights are,
6. Expose the misdeeds of their critics,
7. Access to information which should be public,
8. Equal pay for equal work performed,
9. Defend themselves when accused of wrong doing,
10. Many other prerequisites to overall integrity.
The process of making a person more vulnerable than
they already are --- need not involve any direct threat,
coercion, manipulation, abuse, or violence. The process
may merely lay the foundations for future threats,
coercion, manipulations, abuse, and violations of a
person's personal and communal integrity.
Because we have no generally used word to refer to
the process of making a person more vulnerable than they
already are --- we tend not to recognize how evil and
disintegrative such processes are. Bullies are allowed
to push around weak, sick, and poor children and women who
need assistance. Rich people are allowed to make
themselves richer by abusing people who are poor in
political power and material possessions.
Dishonest political leaders are allowed to accumulate
increasing amounts of power. Militarists are allowed to
get nations involved in destructive violent conflicts
which undermine both person and communal integrity.
We need to increase our ability to discern how it is
that the soil is prepared for the sowing of the seeds of
future conflicts and violence --- by making people more
vulnerable than they already are. Bullies vulnerate other
people who cannot defend themselves.
"vulnerate" (1) To make a person more vulnerable
than they already are; e.g., by depriving them of rights
which they should be free to enjoy.
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