Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you get your hair done at a salon, wear make-up, or visit tanning booths?
*Do you regularly eat lunch with the same group of friends or coworkers?
*When a “show of hands” is desired, do you abstain from raising yours?
*Do you tell folks that you feel “great” when your really don’t?
*Do you adopt the mannerisms, speech patterns or style of dress of people you admire?
*Do you put off decision-making until you are relatively certain that your choice will be
followed or approved?
*Do you have difficulty laughing at yourself, or blush when you are laughed at?
*Do you criticize yourself internally, or strive for “self-improvement”?
*Are you in the military, or do you support your country’s “just wars”?
*Do you “dress to impress”, or look at your reflection in mirrors or windows more than
twice a day?
*Do you give another person a holiday gift (or for their birthday) because they gave you
one as well (or because you anticipate that they soon will)?
*Do you diet (or lift weights, or go to the gym) in order to “look better”?
*Do you secretly laugh at people who “act weird”, “dress poorly” or say “strange
things”?
*Do you have a fear of speaking in public?
*Do you associate primarily with others who have a similar economic status, the same
race, &/or a belief system similar to your own?
*Do you believe that “the ends justify the means”, or that Right Action means “doing the
greatest good for the greatest number”?
*Do you feel certain of your own morality?
*Do you believe in any stereotypes (e.g. black people are generally lazy, Asian people
are generally smart, Jewish people are generally stingy, Americans are generally
superficial, etc)?
*Do you believe that “silence is consent” – that if others don’t voice contrary opinions, it
means that they agree with yours?
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