This is http://www.essayz.com/b0802130.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %PREVENT EXCESSIVE RISK TAKING PROHIBIT PRESCRIBE 080213 Some Proscriptions, Taboos, Commands, Laws, etc. often define what MUST-NOT be done. Other Prescriptions, Demands, Commands, Laws, etc often define what MUST be done. The above are designed to protect individuals and societies from ENGAGING-IN and/or NOT-ENGAGING-IN particular behaviors which involve high-levels-of-risk --- due to ignorance, prejudice, ill-will, anger, domination, etc. The above often fail to achieve intended purposes due to one or more of the following failures: 1. The lack of clarity and/or specificity in language. 2. Overly-repressive-language which prohibits far more kinds of behavior than need to be prohibited to achieve the desired effect. 3. Unclear-Language which is vague about what kinds of behavior need to be prohibited due to the risks which they pose. 4. Unclear-Language which taken literally prohibits behaviors which entail little if any objective risks. 5. Prohibitions, commands, demands and taboos which cannot be enforced without violating people's rights and/or violating other laws; e.g., regarding CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS/PROVISIONS and the U.N. Universal- Declaration-of-Human-Rights. 6. Prohibitions, commands, demands and taboos which taken as a whole are internally contradictory, incoherent, and/or encourage Alienative-Behaviors; e.g., Dishonesty, Pretentions, 7. Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception which make it ABSOLUTELY-TABOO to describe with any degree of accuracy what it is that Must-Not-Be-Done --- because that Domain-of-Being-and-Doing is ABSOLUTELY-TABOO and DOES- NOT-EXIST. This has been the case as regards UNCONVENTIONAL-SEXUAL-RELATIONSHIPS, SEX-SLAVES, GLOBAL- WARMING, RISING-OCEANS, PEAK-OIL, PEAK-COAL, PEAK-URANIUM, MELTING-ICE-SHEETS, GREED, YTHS-OF-REDEMPTIVE-ALIENATIVE- BEHAVIORS-OF-DOMINEERING-PEOPLE, UNJUST-ECONOMIC-SYSTEMS, ETC. ==========================================================