I was raised a Quaker, with zero fear of punishment from god at all. I was taught, as a Quaker, that hell may or may not exist but Jesus died for my sins whether I wanted him to or not, so there would never be any punishment, and I should seek to do good because it's the right thing to do.
That's why, when I post the 3d graph, I say "1" o…
I was raised a Quaker, with zero fear of punishment from god at all. I was taught, as a Quaker, that hell may or may not exist but Jesus died for my sins whether I wanted him to or not, so there would never be any punishment, and I should seek to do good because it's the right thing to do.
That's why, when I post the 3d graph, I say "1" on the Z axis is "all potential criminals are committing crime," not every *person* is committing crime. Potential criminals are deterred by punishment mechanics. Non-criminals don't need to be deterred.
But criminality is somehow a process of character formation over time, and it's that process that ultimately matters. Everyone is potentially a criminal, because selfish desires are part of the human psyche. Evolution has something to do with that, right?
Your parents sound like great people. Beliefs are interesting. There's what people are taught to believe, what we say we believe, and what we actually believe, as revealed by our actions. Some of that good socialization clearly took hold in you.
I was raised a Quaker, with zero fear of punishment from god at all. I was taught, as a Quaker, that hell may or may not exist but Jesus died for my sins whether I wanted him to or not, so there would never be any punishment, and I should seek to do good because it's the right thing to do.
That's why, when I post the 3d graph, I say "1" on the Z axis is "all potential criminals are committing crime," not every *person* is committing crime. Potential criminals are deterred by punishment mechanics. Non-criminals don't need to be deterred.
But criminality is somehow a process of character formation over time, and it's that process that ultimately matters. Everyone is potentially a criminal, because selfish desires are part of the human psyche. Evolution has something to do with that, right?
Your parents sound like great people. Beliefs are interesting. There's what people are taught to believe, what we say we believe, and what we actually believe, as revealed by our actions. Some of that good socialization clearly took hold in you.
This assumes that culturally normative behavior isn't criminal in fact though!