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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9310111.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.} ========================================================== %AUTHORITY REQUIRE CONFESS COLLUSION LIMIT POWER+931011 %CORRUPT DOUBLE BIND TRAGIC GOOD INTEND 931011 Not all that it is good to do freely of one's own free will---is it equally good to do when required to do it by some coercive authority acting without limit or balance. Requiring people to behave in good and proper ways can lead to perversions of good and proper behavior--- especially when those persons in authority who set up and/or administer the requirements are free of effective checks and balances upon their powers. Unlimited power corrupts. Unbalanced power generates alienation and perverted relationships. Granting to some people the unchecked power to require and coerce good and proper behavior has often led to the perversion of good and proper behavior, and has led through alienation to perverted relationships. Healthy reflexive relationships cannot be required in healthy ways. Attempts to require healthy reflexive relationships lead to alienation, perverted relationships and to misconceptions of the nature of good and proper behavior. It is good for people to confess their mistakes and to ask each other for forgiveness following occasions of alienative behaviors---if they are free to do so voluntarily. It does not follow that it is good for people with unbalanced power and authority to require that others with less power and authority confess their mistakes and regularly ask forgiveness of the powerful authorities; e.g., for mistakes made and for occasions of offensive behavior. There are important differences between: (1) Accurate DESCRIPTIONS of the nature and consequences of proper behavior, and (2) Authoritative PRESCRIPTIONS which require such proper behavior. Healthy living is usually not the fruit of requirements, coercion and conformity. Healthy living flows from the freedom to be safely vulnerable in intimate relationships, balanced power in relationships, and uninhibited creative imaginations which complement each other. It is important that those differences not be blurred, and that people not be confused regarding the implications of them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================