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This-essay is a7712284.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %KINDS OF PROHIBITIONS 771228 Prohibitions are designed to protect people's rights. Murder and physical attack clearly violate the victim's welfare and are prohibited. Theft and/or doing damage to a person's body and/or property also violates the victim's welfare and integrity, are prohibited---even though the person may be untouched. The propriety of prohibitions becomes more questionable the more indirect the violation of the person's welfare, and the more the "victim" has control of the consequences of the "violation". Verbal attacks are often not prohibited because the mature person has a great deal of control over the effect of a verbal attack. Slander which is very damaging to the reputation of a victim and over which the victim has little control is an exception, and is commonly prohibited. Speaking the truth is generally not prohibited, even if it be damaging to some person's appearance or respectability. Sometimes people are offended by becoming aware of behavior which they find offensive. Knowledge of what will offend another may be used to disturb them---by behaving in ways which will offend them. If we regard our emotions as the consequence of other people's behavior---and at the same time regard some emotions as good---while other emotions are bad---we have then set the stage for prohibiting the eliciting of "bad" emotions. Emotions are neither "good" nor "bad". Emotions reveal us, just as speaking the truth about ourselves can in part reveal us. The truth about ourselves may be disturbing to another person --- but that is not grounds for the prohibition of speaking the truth. The emotional truth about ourselves may be disturbing to another person, but that is not grounds for prohibition of the revelation of such emotional truths. Emotional truths are not "good" or "bad", they are truths. To attempt to deny or repress such truths is unwise. To prohibit "bad" emotions is foolish. To try to prohibit people from occasioning "bad" emotions is foolish. In general a person should not be held accountable for the emotions they occasion in another person, unless malicious intent is clearly evident. A conscious effort to violate another person's emotional well-being may be just as damaging as a physical attack, but is much harder to adjudicate. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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