This is http://www.essayz.com/b0304272.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.} ========================================================== %WHY HOW TRUST POWERFUL DOMINEERING SUPPORTER EVIL+030427 %STANDARD JUDGE QUALIFICATION CONSERVATIVE JUDGES+030427 %FUNDAMENTALIST EXTREMISTS TERRORISTS CRUSADERS+030427 %BEHAVIOR CONDUCT PRIVATE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS+030427 %INVASION PROTECTION VULNERABLE VICTIMS SECURITY+030427 %GRACIOUS OPEN HONEST PUBLIC SANCTUARY RECONCILED 030427 By what standards can we best judge the qualification of conservatives/fundamentalists who seek to enforce what they regard as good standards of conduct for people in private relationships? The following questions need to receive gracious, honest and public consideration: 1. Can domineering people be trusted to enforce standards of conduct for people in private relationships? Why trust, or not trust, domineering people with such duties? 2. How can standards for the conduct of people in private relationships be written/articulated so that vulnerable people are not entrapped in a system which in effects says "You are guilty, unless you can prove yourself to be innocent." Or, "Convince us that you are not doing anything in private, which we think/feel that you might be doing; but which we DO NOT dare describe in public." Or, "Convince us that you are not doing anything in private, which we think/feel that you might be doing; and which we HAVE described in general terms only --- in public." 3. To what extent can public behavior and statements be accepted as valid evidence --- that in private other behaviors which are forbidden (maybe tacitly) are taking place away from the public eye? Why so in any case? 4. Is it ever proper for powerful people to enforce rules or regulations which were not clearly articulated in documents published in appropriate ways --- in advance of the objected-to-behaviors? Why so in any case? 5. Is it ever proper for a non-governmental agency to enforce rules or regulations in ways which violate the constitutional rights of those who are accused of improper behavior? Can citizens in any ways give up constitutional rights to any non-governmental agency; so that no one can bring charges against the non- governmental agency for violating the rights of citizens who are said to have given up their constitutional rights in return for some ostensible benefits offered by the non-governmental agency? Why so in any case? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================