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They are willfully responding, and that makes all the difference in the world.
by mfringel 14y ago
They are willfully responding, and that makes all the difference in the world.
- monochromatic 14y agoWhat does that even mean?
- svachalek 14y agoThey are not robots, they make choices. If I offered money to steal babies, that's an incentive. If someone did it and tried to defend themselves by saying "I was just responding to the incentive" that does not make them any less reprehensible.
- monochromatic 14y agoWhat I meant was to question whether responding to an incentive is ever not willful.
- waqf 14y agoI was deliberately not talking about whether it was reprehensible. I was talking about how and whether you would succeed in inducing everyone to stop doing it.
- rdwallis 14y agoSadly, when people are offered money to steal babies they steal babies.[1] The moral outrage is important because it increases the cost of the action but removing the incentive is generally a more effective way to change behavior. [1] http://www.economist.com/news/china/21570762-curb-widespread-trafficking-abducted-children-officials-and-parents-are-turning-social http://www.economist.com/news/china/21570762-curb-widespread...