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Secrecy Is As Indispensable To Human Beings As Fire, And As Greatly Feared.

We Are All, In A Sense, Experts On Secrecy. From Earliest Childhood We Feel Its Mystery And Attraction. We Know Both The Power It Confers And The Burden It Imposes. We Learn How It Can Delight, Give Breathing Space And Protect.

Regardless Of How Often The Appetite For Entertainment Violence Becomes Addictive, Increased Exposure Does Risk Further Desensitizing Viewers. And The Element Of Pleasure That They Derive May Lead Them To Regard Violence As A More Acceptable Way Of Dealing With Problems, And Victimization As More Tolerable So Long As It Befalls Others, Not Themselves.

Are People The Best Judges Of Their Own Happiness, Or Outsiders? In Defining Happiness, Should We Think Of Entire Lives Or Of Shorter Periods Such As Moments, Days, Or Years? And To What Extent Are Virtue And Happiness Linked?

Much As Being Active In The Antislavery Movement Of The Last Century Involved More Than Not Engaging In Slavery Oneself, So Joining In An Antiviolence Movement Has To Go Beyond Opting For Nonviolence In One's Personal Life. It Calls For Engaging In Imaginative And Forceful Practices Of Nonviolent Resistance To Violence, Including Taking A Stand Toward Entertainment Violence.