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Digestive System: Why make the inactive form of Pepsin?

During the Digestive System lecture, we discussed chief cells secreting pepsinogen within the stomach for protein chemical digestion. Pepsinogen is the inactive form of pepsin. Why do chief cells secret pepsinogen instead of pepsin, the activated protease?