Bernard Boire, replying to LO10945 --
>To Joan Pomo's comment:
> > As concerns fear of retribution as an element in reducing crime,
> > what other element can replace it to control those whose sense of
> > conscience is insufficient to prevent commission of criminal acts?
> > This applies as well to the world of business and LO's.
>
>Gary Scherling answers:
> >From everything we've read, fear of retribution is not an effective
> >deterrant. If your boss says 'Do this or you're fired', this will
> >only be effective the first few times. Then you either live with it,
> >or get out from under it.
suggests:
>Which IMHO does not answwer the question at all. Everybody would agree the
>current approach does not work well. However this does not answer WHAT
>OTHER ELEMENT CAN *REPLACE* IT. This may be a case of the lesser evil!
The other element was suggested by Marvin Berman as FAITH. Not trust, not
self-efficacy--which both have tremendous value in overcoming fear as
Michael Schwartz attests to--but faith as in "belief that is not based on
proof." And of course, just having faith isn't enough, is it? We need
some shared sense of what to believe in. what could that be?
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