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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8701271.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.} ========================================================== %GENERALIZATION OF TABOO INHIBITIONS 870127 Taboos forbid not only specific actions, but the discussion of that which is forbidden. It is forbidden to discuss the logic and reasons for a taboo. The enforcement must be absolute and without reason. To feel safely conformed fearful people are likely to generalize the scope of a taboo. Yet, it is taboo is discuss the proper range of extension of a taboo, because it is taboo to discuss the logic and grounds for the original taboo. If intimacy is taboo in some specific situations and the regulation of intimacy is based upon taboo---it soon comes to pass that a wider variety of intimacies are taboo, for reasons which can not be discussed. Instances of violence in association with intimacy may thoughtlessly be taken to be evidence in support of the taboo against intimacy. The repression of affection naturally leads to frustration and violence. Highly repressed societies are violent societies. If anti-social behavior is controlled via taboos the attempt at "control" leads to an escalation of violence and inhibition through the vicious cycle of taboo enforcement and frustration. Taboos are inherently disintegrative and so are an inappropriate way to achieve that which they presumably are supposed to achieve; but we must not discuss that. By their nature taboos must not be questioned. They are sacred idols to be worshipped and sacrificed to, not to be analyzed or questioned. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================