The perfectibility premise is based on a Puritan concept. It basically says that people are born in sin and they can only achieve goodness through effort and control. I don't believe in the perfectibility premise. I don't think that people are born in sin. I do, however, think people can achieve goodness through effort and control.
I believe in the mutability premise. This premise states that human behavior is controlled by the environment they are in. This makes sense to me because I think the environment a person grows up in is highly influential in the person that they become. There are always exceptions to the rule, but overall I believe that people are shaped by their environment. Universal education is based on the mutability premise.
My entry for this week is almost identical at least in the facet of partial agreement toward the three premises. I too do not like the idea that people are born into sin; however, people can achieve goodness through effort and control. I was interested in your thoughts about the trail by jury in that it seems as though you feel that the system doesn’t work. I would argue that in concept it works most of the time, and that on a whole the jury tries to convict only those that they truly feel committed a crime. You are obviously correct that innocent people are sometimes convicted wrongly.
ReplyDelete