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Do you have any evidence for your claims? Anyway, the question under discussion is whether maybe we should change their experiences, so they don’t do this sort
by jtbayly 5y ago
Do you have any evidence for your claims?
Anyway, the question under discussion is whether maybe we should change their experiences, so they don’t do this sort of thing anymore.
I know it’s popular to say that we only need positive reinforcement, that we can accomplish everything good just by saying “yes.”
That is false.
- TameAntelope 5y agoIf you need a citation to tell you that it's easier and less risky to not commit crimes, you're not engaging honestly in this conversation. As for the claim that you'd behave as they would, were you in their situation, that's basic Situational Action Theory [0], a well studied theory in criminology that attempts to explain crimes as moral actions. The irrational focus on the relatively small number of "because I wanted to" type crimes is very popular in conservative circles, but isn't an accurate or helpful view of why crime is committed, and it's not shared by the plurality of experts who study this topic academically. [0] https://www.cac.crim.cam.ac.uk/resou/sat https://www.cac.crim.cam.ac.uk/resou/sat