Word: behaviorism
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...currently happening in the West. As human beings, we have the capacity to think, reason, elevate our minds and arrive at a rational decision without laying blame at anyone else's door. Immorality is not endemic. We have the distinct choice of being upright or engaging in forbidden behavior. Maria Jacob, Mississauga, Canada...
...Surely in trying to analyze the causes of human behavior we are unwise to ignore the spiritual? The Psalmist says to God, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made," and the Apostle Paul recognizes that "when I want to do good, evil is right there with me." It seems clear to me that it is by God's design that we human beings are like this. It is not just a matter of our "gray cells." David Caudery, Blackburn, Victoria...
Nonetheless, we learned from the Iraq WMD debacle that logic has a limited place in assessing the behavior of radical regimes. Saddam Hussein bluffed his way into a war that cost him his regime and his life, when he could easily have come clean regarding a WMD program he no longer had. So we must be prepared to grant that bluff and pretense may be part of the Iranian nuclear game as well...
...countless thousands of civilian casualties while at the same time trampling on US citizens’ own constitutional rights in the name of the “war on terror”, and that the Administration appears to be planning a further strike in Iran, the apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body suggests that one of two things is seriously amiss...
...laundry room. We’ve all witnessed students as they knock over soda bottles, look around to see if anyone else noticed, and then fail to clean up after themselves. Or we reach under a desk only to find a sticky wad of gum greeting unsuspecting fingertips. Such behavior reeks of seven-year-old self-centeredness. Supposedly, Harvard students are above that. But this speaks to a more general problem: Too often, students view one another as obstacles or means to an end. It’s the same kind of mentality on display in the New York subway...