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.

While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy Is Not Meant To Deceive.

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.

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.

Trust Is A Social Good To Be Protected Just As Much As The Air We Breathe Or The Water We Drink. When It Is Damaged, The Community As A Whole Suffers; And When It Is Destroyed, Societies Falter And Collapse