True, but we aren't talking about butcher's apprentices and I think there is a really important point here. I agree that you can't do anything about the small percentage of humans who have psychopathic and antisocial personality tendencies. You teach them how to fly a plane and they choose to fly it into a building. As humans have realis…
True, but we aren't talking about butcher's apprentices and I think there is a really important point here. I agree that you can't do anything about the small percentage of humans who have psychopathic and antisocial personality tendencies. You teach them how to fly a plane and they choose to fly it into a building. As humans have realised throughout history, the only way to control these people and stop them from harming others is by some degree of force. That means putting some limits on their freedom and power.
These are not the people I'm referring to in the posts above. I am talking about intelligent, educated, reasonable people who are quite capable of thinking for themselves, but sometimes don't. It is often easier to accept what other people around you are saying or doing than to question it.
What I had in mind was just a simple question for your students: at the end of the course: how do they plan to use to use their newfound powers of persuasion? Even the act of asking such a question can prompt some useful self-reflection.
True, but we aren't talking about butcher's apprentices and I think there is a really important point here. I agree that you can't do anything about the small percentage of humans who have psychopathic and antisocial personality tendencies. You teach them how to fly a plane and they choose to fly it into a building. As humans have realised throughout history, the only way to control these people and stop them from harming others is by some degree of force. That means putting some limits on their freedom and power.
These are not the people I'm referring to in the posts above. I am talking about intelligent, educated, reasonable people who are quite capable of thinking for themselves, but sometimes don't. It is often easier to accept what other people around you are saying or doing than to question it.
What I had in mind was just a simple question for your students: at the end of the course: how do they plan to use to use their newfound powers of persuasion? Even the act of asking such a question can prompt some useful self-reflection.