does your beliefs & moral hold you back from crimes or u just fearful of the punishement if caught?

Answer 1

both

Answer 2

Just a few thoughts and advice perhaps, these gleamed from experience of our police service's activities and how they look at us, these being: -

1) Criminals = People. The average criminal probably lives next door. He gets a way with it because the average person abrogates his responsibility to police his own area or property to the police, who are unable to cope.

2) That, if you are arrested for any offence, if you are innocent, a load of your friends will say that there is no smoke without fire. Innocent people are frequently imprisoned, and in the eyes of these people, for the rest of your life; you will be a criminal; guilty or not!

3) I would appear that, 40% of police officers are bent. You must not tar the rest with the same brush, but be careful and note down each and every word spoken to you by a police officer, then ensure that he or she signs those written words in front of his or her superior.

4) Always remember too. That, criminals don't obey laws; they tell lies too.

5) So, the police start from this premise: - If arrested; you're just another lying crook. It does not matter if you are guilty or innocent, you will get pulled through the mill, and if you come out of the experience without too much trauma to your psychological wellbeing, you are very lucky indeed.

6) You might be a subject, but don't let yourself be treated like an object. Better to die on your feet than on your knees.

VICTIMS AND VILLAINS
7) Yes, there are victims and villains. For every person with money, there is another scheming to relive him or her of it.

8) For the person with a trusting nature, there is another ready to make them a little wiser.
One pays dearly for these little errors of judgement.

9) When the truth gets buried deep beneath a thousand years, asleep, time demands a turn around, and once again the truth is found.

Answer 3

You can actually perform real experiments and get an empirical answer in this way: With the subject under a polygraph (lie detector), construct a thought experiment. "Would you steal from a bank if you knew beyond any doubt that the bank would never even know the money was missing?"

This experiment was done. Most people answered "no" but the polygraph indicated they were deceptive. The examiner went to other questions but came back to that one. Eventually, in order to get past the polygraph, everyone had to admit they would take the money.

So fear, i.e. cowardice holds us back. Yet everyone who took the polygraph said they were "basically good". Just goes to show that not only are we cowards, we also lie to ourselves about it.

Answer 4

In general, I like most in the society have enough common sense to know that committing crimes aren't worth the cost of getting caught or even killed for. And generally the fear of getting caught is based on some form of moral standars taught by the society; such as the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Like my grandfather used to say, "what goes around comes around".

Make it a great day!

Answer 5

I don't want what doesn't belong to me. Life based on falsehoods is empty and meaningless. Money as a goal, no matter how much is accumulated, leaves you just as miserable as being poor. Living in fear of being caught all the time would take the enjoyment out of life completely. A life based on Integrity is much more fulfilling.

Answer 6

My personal beliefs and morals stop me from doing things that are wrong in the laws eyes, i am not feaful of being caught as i follow the law of he land in which i live upon as for religous matters thats another story.

Answer 7

Well of course a mixture of both. I wouldn't mind taking millions from corporations, and wouldn''t feel any guilt from it. But I fear a long prison sentence. And I hate my uncle, but why throw my life away hurting that trash?

As for moral values, I wouldn't take from someones purse, or do anything crappy like eat someones lunch at work. And this is because it is not in my nature.

Answer 8

Neither really. I don't do crimes because I feel emotionally bad when I do something that harms another person or that makes me feel like a smaller less evolved human being. And I have learned that your emotions are the best guidance you can ever have. If you do something that makes you feel negative, you shouldn't have done it. If you do something that genuinely makes you feel joy and you feel proud about it, then it was the right thing. Easy. Emotional guidance rarely ever gets broken and you don't have to wonder if you are interpreting it wrong.

Answer 9

Knowing right from wrong, is where i make most of my decisions. some of the 'laws' are unjust, mind you...but fearing punishment? nahh. people punish each other anyway all the time and it doesnt always have anything to do with the law.

Answer 10

I think it's my beliefs and morals. I don't want to do anything that would hurt someone else.

Answer 11

My Christian beliefs keep me from committing crimes forbidden by Jesus.