The current meme is: transparency. But that can easily get you in legal trouble, big time. As well as chronic unemployment.
The Associated Press reports:
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that 23-year-old Joel Wright was taken into custody after getting off a plane in San Diego. Authorities say he [a seminary student at Pontifical College Josephinum] had written emails to an undercover agent posing as a travel guide that he wanted to adopt or purchase a female child under age 3 in Tijuana, Mexico, for the purposes of having sex with her."
It is fortunate for that female child that Wright seemed to be a verbal screw-up. That child could have been adopted by him had he taken on the false persona of a do-gooder. For years, under the guise of being a good guy, Wright allegedly would have been making her a sexual slave.
Often the difference between success and failure is the compulsion to be transparent. I bear witness to that all the time in 12-step programs. Those who are able to grab hold of life and conventional success tend to be circumspect. With the exception of an intimate relationship, they refrain from putting all their cards on any table.
On the other hand, many others blow even interviews for low-wage employment by sharing a la The Oprah Way. From the get-go, it was stealth which allowed cave man to survive. Had he blabbed to everyone in CaveLand about his great hunting spot, he probably would have been murdered.
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