Eh? Any thoughts? I am constantly baffled by this. More specifically, I'm thinking of things like staying awake too late, having yet another biscuit, smoking another tab...other rather more extreme instances have just popped into mind, and I'm sure you can think of your own examples...why do we do it?!
2006-07-29 14:03:54 · 13 answers · asked by dorothy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
For US participators: a tab = a ciggie, not crack...good lord, I don't do crack! I don't do anything, except the odd pint, and black coffee, and 5 cigs a day.
2006-07-29 14:11:24 · update #1
perhaps the things people call bad are not so bad after all, and we were made to believe that we were wrong by doing these things but we still wanted to do it and did it and are now feeling guilty for nothing..........how we live our lifes bit funny and a bit sad
2006-07-29 14:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by DejaVu 4 · 9⤊ 2⤋
I've wondered that, too. I think it has to do with values. Things that have higher value require more effort on our part to attain. A diamond has a high value because it is so rare and hard to find and difficult to extract. Doing the right thing requires that we go out of our way and expend our own personal resources.
Also the benefits of doing the right thing tend to be less tangible, like volunteering for example, where the reward is in the act and the feeling good that you're doing something important. The benefits of being lazy or eating junk food for breakfast has immediate rewards, but no long-term satisfaction.
2006-07-29 21:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by Gary H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the examples you are talking about, tobacco makes the brain think of it as a thing like food or air, and therefore needed. In general, your mind MAKES the things so appealing instinctively to get you to eat and reward you for it. Tobacco has the same effect, it affects the thing that makes you think you need it, then it sets up a reward for doing that, which you consciously interpret as 'I want food/smoke'.
That is the reason for that kind of behaviour. Greedy people at the expense of others has another explanation.
2006-07-29 21:12:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well we aren't supposed to do them because we're trained as a society not to. it's stuff we'd like to do if there were no "rules" anyway - not because there are "rules". Like who doesn't want another biscuit? But that would make you gain weight which is not "acceptable" in society. Smoking is bad for you (but addictive, so that's that.) and usually you stay up because you're watching something good on tv or having fun out. The only reason you "need" to go to bed is for your job the next day. Hope that makes sense. good question.
2006-07-29 21:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by missybarnes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are able to appreciate the short term pleasure of the "wrong" choice more immediately than the long term benefits of the "right" choices (in particular I am thinking of getting enough sleep, eating habits, exercise, etc...)
2006-07-29 21:07:56 · answer #5 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Isn't it fun to be bad?"
-Judd Nelson as John Bender in The Breakfast Club
2006-07-29 21:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by Suit of Flames 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just our mind like to play with us u kno some thing for a change ..or its just we really don't want to do something but have to ....lol
2006-07-29 21:09:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it seems wrong. society has conditioned us to accept certain things as wrong. and it is within us to just want to rebel against it.
2006-07-29 21:09:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, you get your thrills out of self-denial.
2006-07-29 21:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Report Abuse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the ID which forces us to do
the ego and super-ego are weak in this case
2006-07-29 21:08:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋