People are not dogs. Punishment/reward conditioning leads to the greedy short term thinking that put the US (and arguably the world) in the situation it is right now. Also, who gets to decide what must be punished and what must be rewarded? The state? God?
Treating people badly based on intrinsic traits is bad. That’s what the people we abhor do.
Treating people badly because of their actions and choices is not only good (otherwise you can’t reward people for doing well), but necessary.
People are not dogs. Punishment/reward conditioning leads to the greedy short term thinking that put the US (and arguably the world) in the situation it is right now. Also, who gets to decide what must be punished and what must be rewarded? The state? God?
Are you arguing against laws or rules in general, or just ones that have punishments?