Posted by
GeorgeBruno on Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:06:41 PM
In response to one of my readers...Curt. Excellent points. Allow me to expand a little.
Regarding the social welfare-wealth redistribution concept:
It's true what you say about punishing and rewarding behavior. In the field that I studied and worked in, it was called "extinction".
We all do it when we train a puppy. You reward the desirable behavior and "punish" the undesirable behavioral traits. You do it till the point where the behavior is so minimal or does exist anymore. The behavior is literally extinct.
Then after months and months of hard work, people say to you "You have such a good dog"...like it happened overnight!
Behavioral Modification 101: Behavior that gets rewarded...gets repeated.
Somebody should write a book for government officials "Everything I need to know about leadership, I learned in puppy training"
What if we sent The Dog Whisperer to work for Health and Human Services?
I betcha he'd clean things up in a hurry.
(Hey Curt...wanna be a guest blogger for me sometime?)