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How exactly not to produce an ‘unbelieving’ generation

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
10 min readApr 25, 2020

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Man responds to incentives. If the constitution of a country declares, “all men are equal,” but yet those who constitute the dominant group in the society punish those, among themselves, who attempt to live by the constitution, with fear of such persecution at back of their minds, persons in dominant groups who have wives, husbands, or children become risk averse in respect of doing of what is right. We have then that it is not so much what the laws of a country say that are most important for facilitation of right actions, but rather presence or absence of incentives, that is, presence or absence of rewards for doing of what is right.

In respect of the foregoing, if a White man who recruits on basis of ability, as such sometimes recruits Black men over White men is blacklisted by his or her White peers for doing of what is right, doing of ‘what is right’ becomes more difficult than doing of ‘what is wrong’. Only in presence of Courage then is such a White man able to persevere at doing of what is right.

When incentives, that is, rewards are skewed in favor of wrong actions, we arrive at necessity of Courage for actualization of ‘what is right’ in society. In this respect, it is matter of fact that…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Written by Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos

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