WHY WE DO THINGS
We are willing to do things for many reasons. Like following the crowd. Remember these words from childhood? “I dare you. I double dare you. I double-dog dare you.” In the movie A Christmas Story, one of the boys is double-dog dared and gets his tongue stuck to a cold flag pole in the school yard. We do things for money. We call it a job. Sometimes we do things we know are wrong, and our excuse is “my job requires it of me.” A television show a few years ago was built on the premise that you can get people to do almost anything by offering them enough money. They seemed to be correct. Sometimes we teach our children that the only reason to do something is for money. The shows commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day often mentioned that most British men did not like the American soldiers. They felt that they were “over-paid, over-sexed, and over here.”…
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