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RE: You can't stop fascism by becoming fascist and you can't beat hate with a ban hammer
Maybe education and appreciation are the best ways to "steer" behavior. Because most bad behavior has it's roots in bad education and bad self esteem.
But my point was just that I like it more when people find their way to enlightenment instead of chasing a carrot in front of their nose. If people don't understand why certain behavior is bad or good they might always return to that bad behavior once the incentives change.
Education is the use of reinforcement mechanisms like reward to promote learning of desirable behavior. In school you get good and bad grades, rewarded and punished.
But education does not equal school. Especially in school this system of reward and punishment does not work very well. 80 % of what you learn in school will be gone a few month later because in school most of the time you don't learn because you're interested in something but because you're forced to. Real education is nothing you will experience in an average school. Schools don't educate, they recruit. IMHO
Even outside of school, reinforcement is the core behind all behavioral changes. Education is a result of that reinforcement.
If you are talking the "real world" it's all about reward and punishment. A lot of people in life want to get the most rewards for the least punishment.