Thursday, December 1, 2011

Enlightenment

I will have to agree with you both Colby and Tommy. I do believe that humans when left to their own freedom and devices are very dangerous. Human innately have the tools to cause great evil. Meaning that humans can potentially be evil. But I will have to say though that I also think that when placed in an environment that has been tailored to inspire good action, the danger of a human decreases drastically. If one is inspired to only do good then to do bad things would have to be one's own original thought, which can happen, but would be met with the morals that had been instilled in said environment they are in.

Imagine that there is a student who lives in a town and goes to a school where only good morals could be found and there was no bad activity. This student one days comes to a test where he can't answer a question. Already at this moment the chances of him cheating are drastically reduced because the idea of cheating barely even exists, and if he is could doing it there are extremely stern punishments, so chances are it doesn't cross his mind because he has only been inspired by, exposed to and taught to do good.

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