Posts made by Partizan

@i-am-male Yes, certainly. I very much concur with all of your points.
Its rather extraordinary how many "developed" nations require that people who want to work for government, such as within branches of law enforcement and security, have to undergo rigorous psychological evaluations before being allowed to work in positions such as Police officers, and why there isn't the same "screening" process when employing politicians, especially before they are allowed to become candidates before taking the position as a prime minister or president of a nation?
The same goes for people with power that may work as executives within other areas of government.
Within the community of psychology, it is known, and proven, that at least one out of 100 people are psychopaths (those that lack empathy) (A quick definition: empathy is a feeling, not a thought. Psychopaths can show sympathy but cannot feel empathy. They can learn how to behave empathetically, but are not able to feel it) Many psychopaths are found in places of power. Psychopaths have a general thirst for power, to be in a position where they can control other people.
In other words, it may be safe to even say that, the world is controlled by psychopaths :) (not all of course)
Physical and emotional needs is what drives people to do exactly anything to secure that, even if they have to step on others to achieve it.

@i-am-male I totally agree. You have good points and good solutions.
On the "crime and punishment" side of humanity, vs. psychology, punishment of any kind is a notion that must be erased. Instead it must be replaced with solutions such as "sentenced to rehabilitation" or "mental realignment" etc.
This is because research within psychology has proven that humans do, act and say due to causes that led them to do things that cause discomfort to other humans, no matter what it may be. Psychology put it into a term called "cycle of abuse" Abuse is done in any way that inflicts discomfort/harm to other humans, whether its through, lying, cheating, stealing, war, violence, sexual abuse, murder etc.
Humans are not evil. Humans are conditioned, affected to do, say and think by external forces, i.e other humans. Essentially it means that humans are all equally innocent, and all equally guilty for all the wrongs that people do. How humans treat other humans is what causes them how they treat others. This is done in different ways, psychologically and physically. Its not about reason anymore. Psychology has proven that it is about causes. Causes that effect them psychologically, consciously or unconsciously to do harmful things to others.
It would be interesting to, for example, welcome an alien to Earth and explain about how we do things here, such as, "Hi, yeah so, uh we punish humans, imprison and execute them amongst other things when they do bad things. Welcome to Earth!"
I wouldn't be surprised if the alien would think, "What! You creatures are insane. Of all the evolving you have done so far within science, technology and making things easier for yourselves, you haven't evolved away from the whole punishment notion yet? So, when humans mistreat other humans, those humans in return hurt others, and then you punish them for being mistreated? How long have you been doing this. Do you not have any better solutions?"
"Well, I don't know, I guess we've done this since we came to being"
Punishment is an archaic mind-set. Punishment is a nicer word for revenge. People only think of the whole punishment thing because they have been taught about it since birth. Take away the punishment notion, and put in rehabilitation, then the future humans will see it as a normal solution. "Ok, this person did harmful things, we will send them to rehab" People at that time will just think, "Yes, that is how we do things here"
Once humans come to this understanding, the alien may very well consider visiting us again, thinking "wow, they actually took a giant leap in their evolving!"
This new level of evolving can be done. Humans have the ability to change their ways of thinking. It is not hard to change how they perceive things. Look at the many norms we have today in society, even things that have been de-stigmatized which in the past was considered heresy, blasphemy, or downright evil and wrong and punishable by torture, imprisonment and death.
Humans can be conditioned to believe anything -ANYTHING! This is done, amongst other ways, through desensitization. Also through re-education, and through media that bomb the old ways of thinking out of peoples minds and into a different way of thinking about what is right and wrong. The powers that be are aware of this strategy, the question is, why they haven't done it yet in this topic.

@sarah The definition of God, is all that we so far do not understand. God is neither a he or a she, it is an "It".
Humans, for example, are God because humans can create. God -"It" created life. It is a creator. Humans create life and other things too, therefore humans are also God.
To come a little closer to finding the answer to the age old question "who or what created God" can only be done by leaving Earth and seeking the answer somewhere out in space. In our life time, we will sadly never live to know the answer. Space is said to be vast and/or endless. To reach far enough, humans would have to travel for hundreds, if not thousands of years in search for a very plausible clue.
(I wouldn't be surprised that the answer could actually be closer than we think, that we've seen or been told the answer countless times, but humans are still not quite satisfied with the answer. Instead we think we must travel very far to find it, when it could practically be in our backyard and been there the whole time.)

The evolvement of greater understanding of humans in this day and age is thanks to decades of research within human psychology. With that in mind, how would you go about seeking justice to end tyranny, by righting the wrongs in society today in the name of psychology? What radical changes do you think need to be changed?