The Choice Is Ours Page #2
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- 2015
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(Journalist) Why not just use firing squads?
- Aim!
(Narrator) We often hear
It's only human nature!
...and our worst qualities are inborn.
- How are they gonna stop being criminals?
- Oh, nonsense!
They were born that way and
there is no use trying to change them.
THE DETERMINANTS OF BEHAVIOR
[Henry Schlinger Jr., PhD] I think it's
difficult to talk about a specific human nature
like we talk about fixed or modal
action patterns in nonhuman species.
But clearly in humans,
learning plays the major role.
In fact, I refer to humans
as 'the learning animal',
because humans learn more than any other animal.
(Narrator) And yet,
considering our history of aggression,
warlike tendencies,
jealousies and hatred...
(US soldier) Keep shootin'
(Narrator) ...we still have much to learn.
One would think it impossible to simply overlook
the conditions we're immersed in.
(Jacque) The culture doesn't know any better.
They don't know what forces
are involved in shaping human behavior.
Therefore, they invent their own concept
and project their own values into human behavior
and say that's human nature.
That's where they're wrong.
(Henry) Right now we have an explosion
of technologies in our culture.
I think many people think that
technology is going to save us.
Certainly technology has made our lives
easier in many respects.
- Find parking space.
Sometimes it's good; sometimes it's not so good.
(Journalist) Drones armed with Hellfire missiles...
How would you like to get paid
to spy on your neighbors?
There's one technology that we don't have,
that we sorely need
if we're going to really change,
and that's the technology of behavior.
The science of behavior needs to be
applied like the sciences of physics,
chemistry, and biology have been.
That's that one missing ingredient in our culture.
And that's the toughest one because
it opposes the way that
most people think about themselves.
(Narrator) Examining human behavior
in the same manner
as any other physical phenomenon
will enable us to understand
the factors responsible for shaping
our attitudes and our conduct.
(Henry) All natural scientists
assume that their subject matters
are lawful and orderly.
If they're not, then you can't do science.
Behavioral scientists assume
the behavior of other organisms
is also lawful and orderly.
To not assume that means that you accept that
human behavior is somehow separate
from the rest of nature.
We don't make that assumption.
We make the assumption
that human behavior is part of nature.
(Narrator) Human behavior
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