Give me a fucking break.
gladly, ...which limb should I break first?
Why should we give people incentives to do what they're supposed to do in the first place?
Because if they are incentivized to do what they're
not suppose to, that's what they do. The best example I can give you of that is the greed, lack of oversight, and bloody corruption we saw on Wall Street. And look at the mess it has gotten them, ...
and everybody else into. Bad behavior is currently being incentivized, ...it's about time common sense got off it's derriere and responded accordingly.
When did the government become the equivalent of an insurance company that rewards people with lower premiums for not crashing their cars? This morning I drove my car to school and didn't run over a single pedestrian. After that, I walked through the hallway and didn't shove anyone on the floor or steal anyones wallet. I think I deserve some incentive for that also. Can I have free money?
The incentive doesn't have to be free money, ...but incentives do work don't they? Do you have a problem with lower car insurance rates? Would you turn them down if offered? If you have a clean record and receive lower rates as a result, ...how likely are you to want to keep that status?
Jag your attitude is precisely what's wrong with the world these days- It reminds me of the new-wave rich douchebag parents who get steamrolled by their spoiled brat children; They hand them everything, get disrespected at every turn, give their kids every single possible advantage, and the kids turn out to be unemployed art or literature majors with drug problems whining to their psychiatrists and sleeping on the couch. No discipline, no sense of responsibility, no guts. The incentive is supposed to be avoiding the stick rather than recieving the carrot. If you fuck up, you pay the price via your health, your bank account, your freedom. Are expectations that low in this day and age that doing what you ought to do because its what your supposed to do isn't enough?
Sorry, I beg to differ. Infact, I would go so far as to posit that it's your attitude that may be more of a contributing factor to the chronic challenges we are seeing in today's USA.
It is well understood that people are motivated by 2 things:
a: The desire for gain and
b: the fear of loss.
To say you can or should only accomplish something through fear is not only inaccurate and misguided, it is a sin.
Decisions made out of fear are paralyzing & disempowering, ...and it's through fear that man's true potential is dwarfed.
Look at your President for example. Neither his campaign, nor his victory were based in fear, quite the opposite.
McCain on the other hand was all about fear. Yours leads to a society where people run FROM something rather than GOING FORWARD to something. Huge world of difference.
I should be worth keeping in mind that there are those who do want to do the right thing, but lack the means to.
A pregnant teen who wants to give birth to a healthy baby may want to eat nutritiously and take care of herself, but she lacks the means to do so, ...or for that matter, one too lazy to do so? As a result, she gives birth to an underweight, malnourished, retarded baby with severe cognitive disorders. Who pays that price? The "lazy mother" or the retarded child & the rest of society? No man is an island. Actions have consequences that ripple throughout society. A butterfly can flap it's wings in Minnesota, and guess what, ...there's a tsunami in China.
ps: Kind of ironic don't you think that a self-proclaimed WHORE could be arguing against incentives
