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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9306212.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 ALL RISK CONTROL COST PRUDENT FOOLISH DECIDE 930621 We often seek to minimize risks to ourselves and those who are nearest and dearest to us; ideally seeking to reduce risk to zero. We often seek to be in control of our risk taking. If we seek to avoid all risks by being in control of all the risks we take we inevitably are led into decisions and actions which rob our lives of meaningful intimacy, relationships and dialogue. All meaningful dialogue, relationships and intimacy entail significant risks. Trying to eliminate all risks to the zero level entails eliminating all dialogue, relationships and intimacy to zero. If Jack is trying to eliminate all risks in his dialogue with Jill then Jill is bound to be suspicious of Jack and the relationships between Jack and Jill is bound to become less intimate than if Jack is willing to take meaningful risks in relating to Jill intimately. When we are defensive in our approaches to each other we elicit from each other defensive responses which undermine our security, dialogue, relationships and possibilities of meaningful intimacy. It does not pay to try to be fully in control of all the risks which we take. Trying to reduce our risks to zero is in the final analysis a very risky business, because it leads us into escalating arms races with increasing tendencies towards violence! (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================