Posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2005, at 20:23:11
In reply to Punishment is medicine.Aristotle.Nicomachean Ethic, posted by Faradism.net on January 1, 2005, at 19:51:15
>My is web site on how we can win the war on drugs and alcohol by teaching people how to self administered electric "shocks" as a negative reinforcer.
See now here I think you really mean a punisher and not a 'negative reinforcer'. See a negative reinforcer is the taking away of a NEGATIVE stimuli in order to REINFORCE (increase the frequency) of a certain response. A punisher, on the other hand is the administering of a negative stimuli (such as an electric shock) to decrease the frequency of a response, such as drug and alchohol use.
By the way, I do not like your implication that homosexuality is an undesirable behaviour.
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