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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9001041.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.} ========================================================== %AVOID COERCIVE VIOLENT RIDICULE CONFORM PRETENSE 900104 We surrender to coercive people when we modify our behavior to avoid their threats of ridicule. Surrender to coercive people does not lead them to become less coercive; rather, it encourages them to become more coercive. Rather than surrendering to coercive people's threats of ridicule, we need to be clear ourselves and make clear to others that the use of ridicule is never worthy of respect. Ridicule is coercive, violent, and tends to destroy personal and communal integrity. Ridicule is not a tool which can be used to promote personal or communal integrity, and so should never be respected. Building a communal context in which people who make use of ridicule are not respected is a better way to defend ourselves against ridicule, than is trying to behave in ways which will deflect ridicule to persons other than ourselves. In a healthy communal context people will learn to avoid the use of ridicule, rather than try to learn which people they can ridicule and retain respect. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================