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The Amish can also teach us that it takes a certain amount of self-denial or sacrifice to be part of a community.
Bonnet Strings
Miller Furlong, Saloma
Yet Skinner’s ideas were far from universally applauded. Although the soundness of his scientific work was seldom questioned, his far-reaching conclusions about human nature were repudiated by numerous influential critics. Noam Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Arthur Koes- tler have repeatedly argued that Skinner’s behavioral engineering reduces humans to laboratory rats and controlled robots, stripping them of dignity and free will.
Living Walden Two : B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
Hilke Kuhlman
Quite the contrary. Someone who has a disorder and does not get professional support in changing the behavior that harms others, and instead uses that disorder as an excuse to continue to abuse others, can still be accountable for their actions.
Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare
Shahida Arabi
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