Went digging for information on the death penalty, then onto a topic of us legal and prison systems... and somehow ended up reading this:
Consistency
http://www.chapman.edu/comm/comm/fac...nsistency.html
Quote:
The Main Point of Consistency Theory is this: People need consistency in their lives. The theory breaks down into three simple steps.
Step 1: People expect consistency.
Step 2: Inconsistencies create a state of dissonance.
Step 3: Dissonance drives us to restore consistency.
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As always - read the whole link for more....
I got me thinking that very often I seek out dissonance in life to challege what I believe and how I see things. Too often people unquestioningly believe in what they were taught growing up, somewhere in the process of becoming adults many people stopped asking the ultimate question of children everywhere:
Why?