This is http://www.essayz.com/b0208021.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PERVERSE PLEASURES NO MERIT HONOR RESPECT SUPPORT+020802 %ENJOYMENT CAUSE FORCE OTHERS SUFFER PAIN HARM SIN+020802 %PAIN HARM FEAR THEFT LOSS ATTACKS THREATS DAMAGE+020802 %DISEASE THIRST HUNGER POVERTY HOMELESS POWERLESS+020802 %VULNERATION UNWELCOME VULNERABILITY ANXIETY HURT+020802 %DISHONESTY DECEPTION PRETENSE COLLUSION ADDICTION+020802 %VIOLENCE COERCION CIVIL RIGHTS SPEECH PRESS HOPE 020802 Not all kinds of pleasures merit our honor, respect or support. Some pleasures are perverse pleasures --- which do NOT merit our honor, respect or support; e.g., if our enjoyment of some form of pleasure entails: 1. Causing/forcing others TO-SUFFER: pain, harm, fear, theft, loss, attacks, threats, damage, disease, thirst, hunger, poverty, homelessness, powerlessness, vulneration, unwelcome-vulnerability, anxiety, etc. 2. Dishonesty, deception, pretense, collusions, etc. 3. The unilateral concentration of power into the hands of those who enjoy the pleasure. 4. Addictive and/or codependent behaviors. 5. Violating people's civil-rights such as their rights of uninhibited: speech, press, assembly, privacy and petition for redress of grievances. 6. Depriving others of harmless pleasures without good cause and due process. 7. Attempts to UNILATERALLY CONTROL other people's: thoughts, attitudes, desires, hopes, aspirations, dreams, visions, fears, etc. 8. The use of coercion, force and/or violence in order for us to be able to enjoy a special pleasure ourselves. 9. Presuming to do what is utterly impossible to do --- at the expense of of other people. 10. Pretending to be superior to others by virtue of: birth, skin-color, nationality, language, beliefs, exclusivity, rituals, separation, segregation, caste, class, etc. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================