I like to hit her. I appreciate your mature response. Please show me how you will do that. Boy walks across the room without hitting his sister. When you control yourself like that, you will earn some very valuable privileges.
Children are the sum total of what they are rewarded for.
Discussions about the fundamental nature of humans may seem like academic babbling. It is not. Maybe humans are like animals to be trained to run the mazes of life and peck the levers of goodness and productivity. The clear, if cynical, message of this philosophy is that you can buy anything in this world with money, tokens, points, pellets, and stars. It suggests that each soul is only a hollow corridor in which we hear the echo of our pats, nods, and praise.