My Advice to Gentlemen in their 20s

If a gentleman in his 20s were to ask me for personal advice---and I'm almost never given this opportunity, I might add----I would enthusiastically offer that gentleman the following suggestions:

(1) ALWAYS STRIVE TO ACHIEVE EACH OF YOUR GOALS, NO MATTER WHAT THEY MIGHT BE, IN A LAW-ABIDING AND CIVIL MANNER.
That strategy will simplify and enhance all aspects of your entire life. You will also find that (contrary to what many Americans say about morally straight people being "boring") it takes a lot more creativity and is a lot more emotionally fulfilling and interesting to pursue a civil and law-abiding life at all times.

Among the thousands of benefits to you from pursuing a law-abiding and civil life are, of course, the simple fact that you will enjoy a life in which you enjoy full freedom and a full range of options and opportunities, since you yourself have no criminal-conviction record and are honorable. You will also find that if you develop a reputation for being civil and law-abiding at all times, this will enhance your ability to make friends with persons of the opposite sex. Women and girls are much more likely to trust a gentleman or male youth who has a proven record for honesty in communications, civility at all times, and obedience of the law.

(2) STRIVE FOR CONSISTENCY OF TACTFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE HONESTY, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
If you are consistently honest in statements you make to others, you will find that they are far more likely to trust you as a result. A person who has a reputation for tactful honesty is also likely to benefit in his career-related pursuits and social life. Keep in mind that whoever your prospective friends or mutual-consent romantic dating partner proves to be, they will admire you and like or love you a lot more, and a lot more consistently, if you are dependably honest in your statements and conduct relating to themselves.

(3)KEEP AND REGULARLY UPDATE ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS A LIST OF YOUR OWN CURRENT HOBBIES AND PASTIMES, ALONG WITH A SEPARATE LIST OF PROSPECTIVE NEW HOBBIES OR PASTIMES THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO DEVELOP. IF YOU KEEP THOSE TWO LISTS IN A EASY-TO-CONSULT DRAWER OR CABINET OR FILE IN YOUR RESIDENCE, OR IN A NOTEBOOK THAT YOU CARRY WITH YOU ON A FREQUENT BASIS, THIS WILL HELP YOU TO ENRICH THE QUALITY OF YOUR LEISURETIME HOURS THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE.
AS YOU REFLECT ON POSSIBLE NEW HOBBIES OR PASTIMES FOR YOURSELF, YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHICH ACTIVITIES OR PERSONS OR THINGS INSPIRE IN ME THE GREATEST SENSE OF PLATONIC PASSION OR PLATONIC PLEASURE IN MY OWN LIFE?
IF YOU ENJOY DRINKING HOT TEA OR ICED TEA, FOR INSTANCE, YOU MIGHT WELL FIND A TEA-AND-CONVERSATION CIVIC GROUP IN YOUR CITY OR TOWN OR COUNTY THAT APPEALS TO YOU. IF YOU ENJOY READING BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS ABOUT HEROIC PERSONS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO JOIN A CIVIC GROUP THAT REWARDS HEROISM.

(4)PLACE A HEAVY EMPHASIS ON PLATONIC PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUR OWN LIFE AT ALL TIMES. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR ROMANTIC WISHES OR ROMANTIC ASPIRATIONS MIGHT BE, YOU WILL FIND THAT HAVING STEADY, CONSISTENT, DEPENDABLY CONGENIAL PERSONAL PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS DURING YOUR LEISURETIME WITH LAW-ABIDING, PRIVACY-RESPECTFUL, CONSTRUCTIVE INDIVIDUALS, WILL PERVASIVELY ENHANCE YOUR OWN LEVEL OF ENJOYMENT OF YOUR LIFE, AS WELL AS YOUR OWN MEDICAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING.
THIS ADVICE IS BASED ON THE VERY IMPORTANT OBSERVATION, AN OBSERVATION OFTEN OVERLOOKED BY MOST GENTLEMEN WHO ARE IN THEIR 20S, THAT 99 PERCENT TO 100 PERCENT OF ALL OF YOUR OWN HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUR 20s AND THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE---INCLUDING YOUR CAREER-RELATED RELATIONSHIPS, LEISURETIME RELATIONSHIPS YOU HAVE WITH FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS OF YOURS, LEISURETIME RELATIONSHIPS YOU HAVE WITH FRIENDLY STORE CLERKS AND WAITERS AND WAITRESSES, AND MANY YOUR OTHER NON-ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS----ARE, OF COURSE, DEFACTO PLATONIC IN NATURE, SINCE THEY DO NOT INVOLVE ANY SEXUAL OR GENITAL CONTACT OF ANY TYPE.

(5) STRIVE TO USE CLEAN LANGUAGE, AS MUCH AS POSSSIBLE. THIS WILL GREATLY ENHANCE YOUR OWN CREDIBILITY AS YOU STRIVE TO DEVELOP LASTING AND MUTUAL-CONSENT PLATONIC PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE MUTUALLY-BENEFICIAL AND WILL PERVASIVELY BENEFIT YOU AND YOUR PLATONIC-RELATIONSHIP FRIENDS OR PLATONIC PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCES. WHEN YOU HABITUALLY VERBALIZE CLEAN LANGUAGE TO OTHERS, THIS CONVEYS YOUR OWN DEVOTION TO A GENTLEMANLY LIFE FEATURING A STRONG SENSE OF PLATONIC PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE.

(6)STRIVE TO IDENTIFY MEETING PLACES OR CIVIC GROUPS OR PARTY HOSTS WHO OR THAT DO NOT FEATURE OR SPONSOR OR INVOLVE YOU IN ANY WAY WITH CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL OR TOBACCO OR MARIJUANA OR ANY OTHER ILLICIT DRUG. IN THE LONG RUN, YOU WILL FIND THAT GROUPS AND CIVIC EVENTS OR SOCIAL EVENTS FITTING THIS ALCOHOL-FREE, TOBACCO-FREE, AND ILLICIT-DRUG-FREE DESCRIPTION GIVE YOU GREATER LASTING PLEASURE AS A HUMAN BEING.

(7)STRIVE TO MINIMIZE YOUR OWN INVOLVEMENT WITH PERSONS WHO HABITUALLY TELL YOU LIES OR KNOWINGLY FALSE STATEMENTS, OR WITH PERSONS WHO EXHIBIT A DEFIANCE OF, OR LACK OF FULL RESPECT FOR, YOUR OWN FREEDOM OF SPEECH RIGHTS, YOUR OWN FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHTS, YOUR OWN FREEDOM OF MUTUAL-CONSENT-AND-FREELY-CHOSEN ASSOCIATION RIGHTS, OR YOUR OWN PRIVACY RIGHTS.
IT WOULD BE VERY HARMFUL AND INJURIOUS TO YOU TO ASSOCIATE WITH DISHONEST PERSONS. IT WOULD ALSO BE VERY HARMFUL TO YOU TO ASSOCIATE WITH ANYONE WHO SEEKS TO CENSOR YOU, OR WHO EXHIBITS INTOLERANCE TOWARD YOUR OWN LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHT TO REFLECT YOUR OWN BELIEFS IN A LAW-ABIDING MANNER THROUGH YOUR OWN LIFESTYLE AND, IF POSSIBLE, THROUGH YOUR CAREER AS WELL.

(8) STRIVE TO MINIMIZE YOUR OWN INVOLVEMENT WITH PERSONS WHO FREQUENTLY VERBALIZE DELIBERATELY CRUEL OR NASTY OR MEAN or SARCASTIC COMMENTS TO YOURSELF, OR WHO PUBLICLY MAKE SLANDEROUS OR LIBELOUS STATEMENTS ABOUT YOURSELF.
Persons fitting that description can pervasively harm your own psyche and self-esteem as a human being. They can also subject you to actions, including illegal conduct, that are permanently injurious to yourself and your career-related and personal reputation.


(9) STRIVE TO AVOID PARTICIPATION IN PRANKS, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Pulling a prank on someone can be permanently injurious to that individual, and the possible harmful repercussions for the "victim" of what you yourself regarded as an "innocent prank" are often impossible to predict in advance. An example of this were the youths in Ohio who, perched at an overpass above a highway, tossed a huge rock onto the windshield of a motor vehicle being driven by a clergyman. That clergyman was permanently and severely handicapped by that injury.

(10) KEEP AND REGULARLY UPDATE A LIST FOR YOURSELF OF EACH OF THE PERSONS YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS WHOM YOU ENJOYED SPEAKING WITH IN PERSON. YOU WILL FIND THAT IF YOU ENJOY THE IN-PERSON CONVERSATIONAL COMPANIONSHIP OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING WHO HAS A PLEASANT IN-PERSON PRESENCE AND FRIENDLY AS WELL AS CALMING BODY LANGUAGE TO HIMSELF OR HERSELF, THAT COULD BE THE BASIS FOR YOUR CHOOSING TO BECOME A PERSONAL FRIEND OF THAT PERSON OR A FRIENDLY ACQUAINTANCE OF THAT PERSON ON A MULTI-YEAR BASIS OR LIFELONG BASIS.
The value of keeping this list lies in the simple fact that we tend to often overlook mutually-congenial or mutually-genial new acquaintances who are patient and personable and pleasant on an in-person basis. And many of the most promising prospective friends or prospective professional associates for yourself may well prove to be polite persons whom you have met before, but you somehow lost contact with them.

(11) PRETEND YOU WERE A LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, AND ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTION ABOUT YOURSELF AS A PROSPECTIVE POLICY-HOLDING CUSTOMER OR CLIENT OF THAT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY:
WHICH OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT I CURRENTLY PURSUE IN MY OWN LIFE COULD BE FATALLY INJURIOUS TO ME OR UNDERMINE MY MEDICAL LONGEVITY OR CREATIVE LIFESPAN?

FOR EXAMPLE:
DO I CLIMB ROCKS ON A FREQUENT BASIS? DO I JUMP FROM AIRPLANES WITH A PARACHUTE AND ATTEMPT TO SKY-DIVE ON A FREQUENT BASIS? DO I FLY A PLANE ON MY OWN ON A FREQUENT BASIS? DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE "SPORT" OF BOXING ON A FREQUENT BASIS? DO I HABITUALLY RUN UP ENTIRE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS WITHOUT HOLDING THE RAIL OF THAT STAIRWAY THE ENTIRE TIME? DO I EVER CONSUME ALCOHOL AND THEN DRIVE A MOTOR VEHICLE? DO I EVER DRIVE THROUGH STREET INTERSECTIONS WHEN THE STREET LIGHT IS RED? DO I DRAG-RACE AGAINST OTHER HUMAN BEINGS? WHEN WALKING ACROSS A STREET, DO I HABITUALLY FAIL TO WALK IN THE DESIGNATED CROSSWALK? WHEN WALKING ACROSS A STREET, DO I FAIL TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ANY AND ALL VEHICLES AND BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES AND JOGGERS TRAVELING TOWARD ME FROM EITHER DIRECTION? DO I LEAD A BAR-CENTERED LIFESTYLE? DO I CONSUME ANY ILLICIT DRUG? AM I ADDICTED TO ANY LICIT DRUG? DO I SMOKE TOBACCO CIGARETTES? DO I CONSUME PIPE TOBACCO OR SNUFF TOBACCO? DO I ENGAGE IN FREQUENT AND INDISCRIMINATE SEX WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF SEX PARTNERS ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS? DO I EVER AGREE TO HAVE SEX WITH ANY MARRIED PERSON WHOM I KNOW AT THE TIME TO BE THE LAWFUL MUTUAL-CONSENT SPOUSE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING? DO I ENGAGE IN SADOMASOCHISTIC SEXUAL PRACTICES INVOLVING THE ACTUAL BEATING OR THE ACTUAL WHIPPING OF A SEX PARTNER OR ROMANTIC PARTNER, OR OF MYSELF, FOR THAT MATTER? DO I PURSUE ANY CONDUCT THAT I KNOW TO BE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW? AM I ADDICTED TO MYSELF PULLING PRANKS ON OTHER HUMAN BEINGS? DO I HABITUALLY TELL FLAGRANT LIES TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS? DO I CHALLENGE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS TO FIST-FIGHTS ON A FREQUENT OR HABITUAL BASIS? DO I VERBALIZE DEATH THREATS TO OTHERS ON ANY OCCASION? DO I PERMIT OTHERS TO SUBJECT ME TO DEATH THREATS WITHOUT MY CONTACTING A LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND FILING CRIMINAL-LAW CHARGES AGAINST THAT OFFENSIVE PERSON?

(14) ASK YOURSELF WITH FULL HONESTY WHETHER YOU ARE CURRENTLY AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO ANY ACTIVITY THAT COULD BE MEDICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY AND FINANCIALLY HARMFUL TO YOU, AND COULD PUT YOU AT INCREASED RISK OF COMMITTING A CRIME OR FACING A LAWSUIT AGAINST YOURSELF IN A COURT OF LAW?
FOR EXAMPLE:
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO GAMBLING?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO DEFYING DEATH ON A FREQUENT BASIS, SUCH AS MIGHT OCCUR IF YOU WERE TO YOURSELF FREQUENTLY RIDE A MOTORCYCLE OR IF YOU YOURSELF WERE TO AGREE TO BE AFFILIATED WITH OR ASSOCIATE WITH OR PATRONIZE THE MAFIA OR COSA NOSTRA OR SOME ILLICIT YOUTH GANG, OR WITH ONE OR MORE ILLICIT DRUG DEALERS?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF YOUR DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO VIDEOTAPING OR PHOTOGRAPHING ANYONE WITHOUT THAT PERSON'S PRIOR EXPRESS CONSENT AND EXPRESS CONSENT AND FULL PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AT THAT TIME AS WELL?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO PROFANE SPEECH OR OBSCENE SPEECH IN YOUR VERBALIZED COMMUNICATIONS WITH OTHERS?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO SEEKING "REVENGE" ON AND SEEKING TO HARM ANY PERSON WHOSE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL AND PERSONAL BELIEFS OR VIGILANTLY LAW-ABIDING LIFESTYLE IS PERCEIVED BY YOU AS A THREAT TO YOU AND YOUR OWN LIFESTYLE VALUES?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO SEEKING TO PERSECUTE OR HOUND OR HARASS OR STALK OR LYNCH OR FINANCIALLY INJURE ANY PERSON WHOSE POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR PERSONAL BELIEFS OR RACIAL OR ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS OR PERSONAL IDENTITY YOU YOURSELF HAVE ANTIPATHY TOWARD OR AN AVERSION TOWARD?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO LABELING ANYONE WHOM YOU DISLIKE AS BEING 'THE ANTI-CHRIST,' WITH YOURSELF USING THAT CITED LABEL OF YOURS AS A RATIONALIZATION FOR YOUR ILLEGALY SEEKING TO HARM OR INJURE OR ATTEMPT TO SECRETLY AND COVERTLY AND SURREPTITOUSLY AND IN A SHOCKING CONTEXT COMPRISING A FELONY CRIME ON YOUR PART, YOURSELF ILLEGALLY SUBJECT THAT TARGETED INDIVIDUAL TO INVOLUNTARY OR UNWITTING INGESTION OF ANY FORM OF POISON OR CONTAMINATION OF HIS FOOD OR BEVERAGE THAT HE DEFINITELY DID NOT REQUEST OR AUTHORIZE OR WANT OR KNOW ABOUT?
--ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO INFLICTING NOISE POLLUTION ON OTHERS ON A NON-STOP AND CONTINUOUS BASIS, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE AWARE THAT THAT NOISE POLLUTION MIGHT BE VIOLATIVE OF THEIR OWN PRIVACY RIGHTS AS WELL AS MEDICALLY INJURIOUS TO THEIR OWN HEARING CAPACITY AND MEDICAL HEALTH AND PERSONAL SAFETY?
---ARE YOU HABITUALLY DRIVING IN EXCESS OF THE SPEED LIMIT? IF SO, YOU MIGHT BE DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO RECKLESS AND INJURIOUS MOTOR-VEHICLE DRIVING PRACTICES THAT JEOPARDIZE THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF YOURSELF AND YOUR PASSENGERS, OTHER MOTORISTS, AND PEDESTRIANS.
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO STALKING PERSONS OR HARASSING PERSONS AFTER THOSE INDIVIDUALS VERBALIZE TO YOURSELF A REJECTION OF YOURSELF?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO PURCHASING VERY EXPENSIVE CARS, VERY EXPENSIVE CLOTHES, AND OTHER VERY EXPENSIVE MATERIAL GOODS, EVEN IF YOUR CURRENT INCOME LEVEL PUTS YOU HEAVILY IN DEBT SHOULD YOU MAKE THOSE PURCHASES?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF TELLING LIES AND INVENTING "FICTIONAL STORIES" OF PSEUDO-EXPLANATION THAT YOU PRESENT AS "FACTUAL INFORMATION" WHENEVER YOU ENCOUNTER A CIRCUMSTANCE IN WHICH ANOTHER PERSON CRITICIZES YOUR OWN CONDUCT OR ACCUSES YOU OF HAVING WRONGED THAT INDIVIDUAL?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO THE METAPHORICAL OUTLOOK THAT YOUR OWN AND OTHERS' LIVES ARE "MERELY A GAME," SO THAT THE PURSUIT OF "FUN" OR THE PURSUIT OF "WINNING AT THIS GAME" OR "THE COLLECTION OF HUMAN TOYS I SEEK TO OWN" ARE YOUR PRIMARY CITED "VALUES" AS A HUMAN BEING.
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES, SO MUCH SO THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU CANNOT ENJOY YOUR DAY UNLESS YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED WHAT YOU REGARD AS THE "THRILL OF VICARIOUS PARTICIPATION IN VIOLENCE" THROUGH YOUR VIDEO-GAME INVOLVEMENTS?
----ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO BESTIALITY AFTER YOU YOURSELF RECENTLY HAD ILLICIT PHYSICAL AND GENITAL CONTACT WITH A FARM ANIMAL OR RANCH ANIMAL?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO TORTURING OR ENSLAVING OR PHYSICALLY ABUSING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, AN ADDICTION THAT YOU POSSIBLY DEVELOPED AFTER HAVING READ THE FICTIONAL WRITINGS OF MARQUIS DE SADE THAT FEATURED HOSTAGE-TAKINGS AND DISEMBOWELMENT OF FEMALE VICTIMS AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS REGARDED AS BEING "SLAVES" OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ARISTOCRATS.
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO INTELLECTUAL OR PLUTOCRATIC ELITISM, SO MUCH SO THAT YOU LOOK UPON ANYONE WHOM YOU REGARD AS BEING "OF LESSER INTELLECT" OR ANYONE "OF A LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS," IN YOUR VIEW, AS BEING A MERE THING THAT YOU CAN MANIPULATE AND SUBJUGATE AND TOY WITH AS A CITED "POSSESSION" OF YOURS?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO HAVING ILLEGAL SEX WITH SOMEONE DURING THAT INDIVIDUAL'S SLEEP, WITH YOURSELF POSSIBLY RATIONALIZING IT AS "A SILENT 'YES' FROM THAT SOMNOLENT SEX PARTNER, SINCE THEIR BEING ASLEEP AT THE TIME MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO SAY 'NO' TO MY SEXUAL PROPOSITION OF THEMSELVES; AND THEREFORE NO ACTUAL RAPE OF MY SLEEPING SEX PARTNER ACTUALLY OCCURRED."
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO FORCING YOURSELF UPON ANOTHER PERSON AND FORCING THAT PERSON TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU IN ANY OTHER CONTEXT?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO COMPELLED OR PRESSURED OR BRIBERY-RELATED INTERGENERATIONAL SEX WITH ADULT PERSONS SIGNIFICANTLY YOUNGER IN AGE THAN YOURSELF, SO MUCH SO THAT YOU FAIL TO FULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE LEGAL RIGHT OF ANY PERSON YOUNGER THAN YOURSELF TO REJECT YOU AND ENJOY FULL AND LIFELONG FREEDOM FROM YOU.
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO ILLEGALLY BLACKMAILING OTHERS WHENEVER YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE PRIVY TO "SCANDALOUS PRIVATE FACTS" ABOUT ANOTHER PERSON?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF SEEKING TO HAVE SEX WITH ANONYMOUS SEX PARTNERS ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS, YOUR APPARENT THINKING BEING THAT YOUR ANONYMOUS-SEX-CENTERED LIFESTYLE WILL SPARE YOU FROM HAVING TO PURCHASE A VALENTINE'S CARD FOR ANYONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO YOUR HAVING ILLICIT SEX WITH SEXUAL PROSTITUTES IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR PAYING THEM MONEY, WITH YOURSELF HAVING RECENTLY CONCLUDED TO YOURSELF THAT "I SAVE A LOT OF TIME BY BYPASSING HAVING TO TREAT THEM TO A MEAL AND CONVERSATION AND BY ELIMINATING ANY PRETENSE OF MY HAVING PERSONAL INTEREST IN THEM OR PERSONAL AFFECTION FOR THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS."
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO LEADING A 'LATE-NIGHT HOURS LIFESTYLE,' BASED ON YOUR POSSIBLE VIEW THAT 'EVERYTHING IS MORE EXCITING AFTER MIDNIGHT'?
---ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO HURLING ANONYMOUS VERBALIZED COMMUNICATIONS AT OTHERS, SUCH AS MIGHT OCCUR IF YOU MADE ANONYMOUS PHONE CALLS TO OTHERS AND HUNG UP ON THEM WITHOUT IDENTIFYING YOURSELF BY NAME.
---AT YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO ATTEMPING TO BRAINWASH OR "DEPROGRAM" ANOTHER PERSON, EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE FAILED TO OBTAIN LEGAL PERMISSION IN A COURT OF LAW FOR ATTEMPTING TO BRAINWASH OR "DEPROGRAM" THAT PERSON?
--ARE YOU AT RISK OF DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO VIGILANTEISM IN ANY ASPECT OF YOUR OWN CONDUCT, WITH YOURSELF THEREBY FAILING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW AND PUNISHMENT OF ANY AND ALL ACTUAL OFFENDERS IS A LEGAL AUTHORITY HELD BY LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND BY JUDGES AND JURIES, NOT BY YOURSELF OR BY ANY CIVIC GROUP OF YOURS OR ANY "RELIGIOUS" GROUP OR "POLITICAL" GROUP OF YOURS OR BY ANY "BUSINESS" ENTITY OF YOURS OR LABOR UNION OR NON-PROFIT GROUP OF YOURS.