IIIIITHE1IIIII on 03 August 2012
| Jay520 said: I'm no psychology graduate or anything so I don't think I'm qualified to say what would happen in the scenario you presented. But if I had to guess, I'd say humans would for the most part do bad without punishment. Again, this is just a guess. I don't think simply "guiding" people will always be effective at making people "good". You can make people realize what's right or wrong, but that doesn't necessarily mean the person will still be "bad" , I.e steal from others kill because they enjoy it, etc. Just my opinion, I don't what will happen, but getting rid of punishment is too much of a risk. Anything could happen. So yeah, I think punishment is perfectly necessary. |
Well, the greatest issue is that doing bad things sometimes result in great and/or more easily accessible profit than being lawful. So, as you said, even if they know that it is wrong or even feel guilty about it afterwards, they will do it again. The problem here would neither be them doing what they think they have to do nor lack of sympathy/empathy. The problem would be society.
