I dunno if it’s because i’m overly cynical, or because I’ve only ever had cats, but I feel like that dog isn’t abstaining from chicken because of morals, but for fear of punished by the woman sitting next to it.
You’re not supposed to punish dogs (or children for that matter), but reward them for good and wanted behavior. Positive reinforcement learning has a much bigger effect that negative reinforcement. I trained my dog to wait for a signal before eating without any punishments, just rewards when she does what I want. So the dog might not have any “morals” that are keeping it from eating that, but it’s not fear either.
Exactly, and in comparison most men I’ve known don’t want to rape. If anything it seems some are trained to want to commit sexual violence rather than to be trained to resist an innate urge to do so.
I dunno if it’s because i’m overly cynical, or because I’ve only ever had cats, but I feel like that dog isn’t abstaining from chicken because of morals, but for fear of punished by the woman sitting next to it.
You’re not supposed to punish dogs (or children for that matter), but reward them for good and wanted behavior. Positive reinforcement learning has a much bigger effect that negative reinforcement. I trained my dog to wait for a signal before eating without any punishments, just rewards when she does what I want. So the dog might not have any “morals” that are keeping it from eating that, but it’s not fear either.
Exactly, and in comparison most men I’ve known don’t want to rape. If anything it seems some are trained to want to commit sexual violence rather than to be trained to resist an innate urge to do so.