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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9212151.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.} ========================================================== %PRUDENT RISK TRUSTWORTHY SECURITY DEFENSE RELATE 921215 It is imprudent to seek to be invulnerable; free of all risks. It is in fact risky to try to be risk-free; for the effort to be risk-free is bound to breed dishonesty which is full of risks. This does not mean that it is prudent to take all risks, or that it is prudent to take risks where there is little promise that the risks will bear good fruit. It is prudent to take modest risks which hold some real promise of moving the boundary between what is risky and what is not risky; moving the boundary toward honesty, intimacy, authenticity, mutual security, cooperation, mutual understanding and mutual trust. It is rarely prudent to take great risks when more modest risks will move the boundary effectively. Many small movements of the boundary are more likely to endure, than is one major shift in the boundary; for major shifts are likely to make some people feel threatened and insecure, and so elicit defensive measures which will shift the boundary back again to where it was---or farther back. Real living is risky, full of taking prudent risks. To try to avoid taking small prudent risks is to avoid real living; and so is to die, bit by bit. It is deadly to always be on the defensive in trying to be risk-free. Such behavior breeds higher levels of risk, rather than reducing the levels of risk. Defensiveness breeds insecurity which elicits defensiveness. Prudent risk taking elicits trust which increases security and moderates tendencies to be defensive. Imprudent risk taking may, however, make people feel insecure in the face of behavior which they cannot understand as being reasonable. Security is promoted by behavior which is seen to be prudent and reasonable, even though entailing what are seen as prudent risks. Security is not promoted by reckless behavior which is seen to be risky in ways which make no sense, and as unlikely to bear good fruit. We need to be in dialogue with those who may be prone to take unfair advantage of us when we take risks---to help them to understand how our risk taking may be seen to be prudent; as likely to bear good fruit. We need to do what we can to help them understand the logic of our taking risks, and how our taking risks can be to their greatest advantage if they do not take unfair advantage of our vulnerability when we do take risks. It is risky to take unfair advantage of people who take prudent risks in an effort to move the boundary between risky behavior and safe behavior---toward honesty, intimacy, authenticity, mutual security, cooperation, mutual understanding and mutual trust. Taking unfair advantage of prudent risk-takers moves the boundary toward dishonesty, animosity, deception, insecurity, antagonism, mutual misunderstanding, and mutual distrust --- a dangerous direction to move. That direction is not in the best interests of anybody in the long term. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================