Carrots or whips?

Question

What are the carrots or the whips that encourage you to make the least environmentally damaging choices in your life?

Answer 1

You have already asked this question.

Internal motivators are just external motivators which have been internalized.  

Brings up a new question regarding motivations:

Is this another example of epistemological thinking in action where external motivations are things you are told are right and must do versus things you believe are right and do willingly?

Things you are told are right but believe are wrong (killing during war) and things people tell you are wrong but believe are right (anthropomorphic concept of God) can be conbined to make anything "fully justified" (killing in the name of God).

OK, that was a tangent, but it makes yout think about what motivates people from a different perspective.

Answer 2

Unto others

i like both

whips are more effectual , i like to see more vigilance on the river to stop people dumping trash and to punish them violently if they do.Because all other forms of persuasion are ineffectual ,

And the river sides are full of trash,dead horses ,dogs ,pigs and cats ,

if we install fines the police take some money and ignore the offenders.

Or the offenders pull a gun and threaten the one who objects

There is a dead cow in the plot next to us for a week now and the whole street stinks to high heaven.

I suppose we must be American about it and ignore the neighbors behavior ,to object could get one shot  anyway.

that would make  dr yellow happy.Another eco minded terrorist bite the dust because he was imposing  a sanitary thought on a good but stinky citizen  .

You mean what we get irrespectively???

for myself

I don`t do anything because of outside pressure apart from not smoking in public areas because the punishment is costly.

I do not throw junk out of the car window because of a moral point of view,even if i have the free choice to do so

I do not make many ,if any ,damaging choices ,

mainly because of principle ,

And i guess one has to set an example.

Especially If one is involved in courses that are supposed to make people environmentally aware.

So reward of punishment does not really come into it.

it is an attitude

I should think most people are the same ,because rarely are we under  observation in our daily actions

At least not by agents who do the rewarding or punishing.

That is a religious concept ,to rely all the time on a higher authority for ones morals ,and that is exactly what I have been against all my life .

Ones behavior and attitude should come from with in

the responsibility lies with the individual.