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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9407143.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.} ========================================================== %MUTUAL COMPETENT FREE ADULT CONSENT MORALITY SEX+940714 %BALANCED POWER RESPECT EQUALITY 940714 Often legalists and moralizers have sought to control human behavior by the imposition of rules and regulations which are not related to the desires, wishes and aspirations of the regulated people. They divert attention away from questions of competent adult mutual consent and towards external definitions of what behaviors are proper and what behaviors are improper---generally ignoring people's desires as if they were irrelevant because they do not contribute to the possibilities of control to be exercised by legalists and moralizers. Coerced consent is never true consent. In unusual circumstances consent by a relatively powerless person to do what a more powerful person suggests is not true and full consent---even if there are no signs of threat or coercion. The more powerful person has more responsibility to be sensitive to the needs, desires, and wishes of the less powerful person, than vice versa. The powerful should not seek consent from the less powerful to do what is risky, unusual, questionable, controversial or of doubtful wisdom---and pretend that consent can be true and full consent under such circumstances. Greater power is usually associated with greater age, status, education, wealth and formal position/responsibilities. Powerful people need to take care not to abuse their power in getting what appears to be consent---but which is not true and full consent because of the unavoidable coercion of their greater power. We need, however, to also recognize that shifting the focus of our attention away from consensual/shared integrative desires --- to conformal considerations, sets the stage for people to be manipulated by colluders, addicts and their codependent supporters. Prescriptions and proscriptions often show no respect for people's consensual/shared desires---even if the people involved are healthy adults of nearly equal levels of power. Preoccupations with conformity can become ultimate concerns and conformity can become the focus of idolatry. The promptings of Holy Spirit can be blocked and occasions of internal conflicts generated within the victims of conformal requirements/expectations. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================