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Old 02-11-2008, 04:18 PM   #41
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You should be more specific in your posting. Your post didn't indicate that at all. In fact, you probably only retroactively are saying that. Since that is now the point of your post, I see no argument against that either. We use guilt like a club to beat the youth into line, we pass around "sign up sheets" we do PPIs to make sure people do their home teaching and have family home evening. I don't think there is a question that we use guilt as a tool to help people make, what we consider, good choices. The real question is whether it is appropriate or inappropriate.
It actually is a good question. I think punishment is often stressed more than reward. Maybe those methods are the best way to keep a large group in line. Human beings are too flawed to use the reward or appeal to the better self method, especially human beings in the formative years.
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