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This-essay is a8505151.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 ========================================================== %ALWAYS ON DEFENSIVE ALERT RESPONSIBILITY 850515 People who hold us to be responsible to always be on defensive alert do not permit us to be vulnerable in intimate relationships; for, while we are involved in intimate relationships we can not be on the defensive alert ready to defend ourselves and those who hold that it is our responsibility to always be on the defensive alert. We can never safely relax. Vulnerability is forbidden, except that we may be and are required to be vulnerable to attacks upon us for failing to always be on defensive alert. It is held that we must be made vulnerable for letting ourselves be vulnerable. Suppose we try to make ourselves invulnerable to those who would attack us for being vulnerable during intimate relationships. We would be on defensive alert against their attacks upon us---following their own advice but directing it against them. They will not praise us for following their advice. We must be vulnerable to them. It is our responsibility to be vulnerable to them, but invulnerable to their enemies. We must not exercise power autonomously. Power must be concentrated in them sufficiently to corrupt them. They will not be satisfied with less. The need to always be on the defensive is justified, rationalized, in terms of the high purpose which will be served thereby. Always being on the defensive is ultimately good because it is dedicated to an ultimately good cause. The end justifies the means. It is only necessary to show that the selected means can be used in the service of some high end. Which is chosen first need not be said. What the ultimate consequence of the choice of means will be need not be said, even if the ultimate consequence is the disintegration of the community which is asked to accept the justification. At Pearl Harbor we were not sufficiently on the alert; that must never happen again even though seeking to prevent it leads to nuclear war and the disintegration of human species. Ultimate dedication to specific means needs to be examined in the light of the questionable survival of the human species within an ecological context which contributes to human integrity and survival. Dedications to ideals which can not contribute to the survival of the dedications and ideals are dedications and ideals which should be questioned. (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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