While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy

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

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

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.

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.

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.