Secrecy Is As Indispensable To Human Beings

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.

Confidentiality Refers To The Boundaries Surrounding Shared Secrets And To The Process Of Guarding These Boundaries. While Confidentiality Protects Much That Is Not In Fact Secret, Personal Secrets Lie At Its Core. The Innermost, The Vulnerable, Often The Shameful: These Aspects Of Self-disclosure Help Explain Why One Name For Professional Confidentiality Has Been "the Professional Secret." Such Secrecy Is Sometimes Mistakenly Confused With Privacy; Yet It Can Concern Many Matters In No Way Private, But That Someone Wishes To Keep From The Knowledge Of Third Parties.

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?

Empathy And Fellow Feeling Form The Very Basis Of Morality. The Capacities For Empathy, For Feeling Responsibility Toward Others And For Reaching Out To Help Them Can Be Stunted Or Undermined Early On, Depending On A Child's Experiences In The Home And Neighborhood. It Becomes Too Easy To Turn Our Backs On Fellow Human Beings... To Have 'compassion Fatigue.' Technology, We Are Learning, Is Not Neutral.

Trust And Integrity Are Precious Resources, Easily Squandered, Hard To Regain. They Can Thrive Only On A Foundation Of Respect For Veracity.