(January 25, 2018 at 11:21 am)wallym Wrote:(January 25, 2018 at 10:45 am)Cyberman Wrote: I don't fear any of those things, yet I have never committed atrocities. Why is that?
You probably fear losing what you have? You don't want to be killed, jailed, be taken away from your family. Lose your house. Car. Access to the forum. Or whatever else it is you value.
The cost of committing atrocities is also so high, that the idea of committing them is a non-starter even if you'd enjoy it.
Add onto that, we're taught from childhood 'doing bad things is bad.' And there's just no reason to question it. But if you remove those consequences, like with the super rich or super poor, or if you're in one of those places there are large benefits instead of consequences, then all of a sudden, people start going the other way.
If there weren't a lot of redundancies in the system, humans wouldn't have lasted as long as we have.
I won't say "probably"; but I would say "maybe".
Since we are children, we are raised and brought up in societies that have a moral code, and a list of penalties in a constitution.
Some things are unified between all societies: like criminalizing killing and theft.
So in a way; we fear the reaction, and that fear disciplines the society; "deterrence".
I totally agree.
