Free will or not, B.F. Skinner showed us that negative reinforcement produced the strongest learning response, behavior will be adjusted accordingly.
With the advance in cognitive psychology we are far beyond Skinner now.
It is more than happenstance that the two countries in which behaviorism flourished—the United States and the Soviet Union—are at least in theory the cradles of egalitarianism. “All men are created equal” and “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” were the ideological underpinnings of behaviorism as well as of the Amer¬ ican and Soviet political systems respectively.That is where things stood in 1965 when we prepared our counterattack against the behaviorists. We thought the behaviorist notion that it all comes down to rewards and punishments that strengthen associations was utter nonsense.
Heart disease. My doctor said blame your parents. There’s nothing you can do. The diet/exercise and prescriptions help but it really doesn’t matter.
Makes sense there so why not here? Adoption outside the gene pool will spoil the good genes in the siblings. Hillary’s solution was the village.
The doctor has a point. That’s what prisons are for. That and ICU units.