Rewards And Punishment Essay

Rewards and punishment are powerful hegemonies of human behavior. The effects of rewards and punishment are undeniably known to modulate people’s mind every time a person wants to make a decision. Psychologically, human mostly make their decisions based on the consequences of a decision through what their minds show of a motivation of being rewarded, or a fear of being punished. Put differently, rewards and punishment are what control and form our lives’ choices by honoring the choices that we will be rewarded for and working hard to achieve them, and avoiding the choices that cause us to be punished. While rewards help us to do our best to follow our interests and work hard to achieve them, punishment can also help us to learn discipline

This kind of concept actually motivate religious people to do well in life and work hard to achieve rewords from their god. Also, to keep them away from immoral choices that causes sins and get punished. In my religion -Islam-, working hard to attain our lives’ goals such as having good education and good jobs are good deeds that we will be reworded for in this life by getting blessed and in the afterlife by going to haven. Therefore, sometimes when I get discomfort and tired of studying, I just remember that I will be rewarded for that. It’s a way to keep me going forward and motivated to reach my goals in life. However, one of my good friends who isn’t religious, told me - after a long debate about what govern our choices in life- that he’s always does what he wants to do, to achieve a certain rewards, such as charity. He believes that if he did well for a homeless person, he isn’t after a reward from anyone. However, I totally disagreed with him because even though he thinks that he is not doing charity to be rewarded, he’s actually doing it to feel good and self-satisfaction of helping someone, which is kind of a spiritual reward. In short, the concept of sins (punishment) and good deeds (rewards) is a way to