Premises

I believe mostly in the rationality premise. The perfectibility mutability premise is questionable. The rationality premise is basically the belief that people are to be trusted to make good decisions when needed. Some of the social institutions that practice these beliefs include democracy and trial by jury. This premise is the one I believe the most. I know I go into anytime of relationship whether it’s a friendship or a significant other, I tend to trust the person until they prove me otherwise. I believe that’s the only way to go through life is to trust someone first, to give them a chance. Otherwise I doubt you would have a happy life because you wouldn’t trust anyone as well as you wouldn’t be able to build great relationships with other people. I know one of the number one things in a relationship is trust, if you don’t have it, the relationship won’t be healthy. With trust comes people making good decisions. If you don’t trust someone I believe they won’t make a good decision in your eyes. I think just like trial by jury “you’re proven innocent until proven guilty”. The perfectibility premise based on that fact that everyone is born sinners, however through effort they can become good or have goodness within them. I don’t believe the fact that everyone is born a sinner, however I do believe that through sins we learn and we grow and can become good from it. I believe that maybe some people are born differently, but through time if they want to change they will change of for the better. But, to say everyone is born a sinner is a little dramatic to me. Lastly, the mutability premsis, is basically stating that humans act the way they do because of the environment in which they have been surrounded by. The way to change these behaviors is said through physical and psychological areas. I don’t believe people are shaped by their environment. Most people say growing up in the ghetto, mean the children are bad, however I have friends that want to prove everyone wrong and are in college now doing great things. I’ve seen rich kids act more stuck up and behave horrible, more than middle class people like me and low class people. I also believe that people can be happy with themselves already and have the environment bring them down. I think it just depends on the person.