Extinction

The extinction of righteousness

In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior, good or bad, decreasing or disappearing to the point of destruction.

Extinction is the decrease in strength of a learned or required primal behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced and the proclivity to it is diminished creating an imbalance that undermines fundamental functions required for continuation.

Operant Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in the response rate of an elemental and fundamental behavior learned via reinforcement. This can be the result of conformity to an alternative form of behavior with a different reinforcement.

Conformity is the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions, ergo practices, to more closely match those held by groups or individuals to which they belong or want to have a relation with or whose approval they desire.

There are numerous types of conformity with in human society which may include compliance, identification, and internalization.

• Compliance: the tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
• Identification: A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
• Internalization: Unconscious mental process where characteristics, beliefs, feelings and attitudes of other people are assimilated into your own self.

The need for approval is the need to garner that sense of physical and emotional security through an acceptable feedback satisfying the need for an agora instinct which integrates the mind of one with the mind of the group in a collective consciousness.

Do you know what you believe?

What are your essential and fundamental values?

Do you know who you are without external justification?

Personalities at war

There are said to be 5 Big Personality Traits that are often seemingly at war with each other when the war is really internal within each trait.

1. Conscientiousness – impulsive, disorganized vs. disciplined, careful
2. Agreeableness – suspicious, uncooperative vs. trusting, helpful
3. Neuroticism – calm, confident vs. anxious, pessimistic
4. Openness to Experience – prefers routine, practical vs. imaginative, spontaneous
5. Extraversion – reserved, thoughtful vs. sociable, fun-loving

The only real conflict is found in the paradox that we may see between light and darkness, cold and heat, or good and evil. The existing positive attributes are represented by those basic personality traits with their only real opposition being found, not in an opposing force or power but in the denial of their absence.

Existential threat

Existential threat or crises refers to anything that threatens the existence of something or someone or their soul, their "right to think" from free travel to free speech. It is often used in a philosophical context related to existentialism, "a philosophy centered on the individual, personal choice, and the meaning of life as self-determined."

The right of self-determination is even mentioned in the United Nation's Charter in Art 1 (2).

Without the individuals accepted right to self determination there is will be an existential threat to all liberty.

The greatest existential threat to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness comes from when you put you right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness before the rights of your neighbor. This is often done through personal, political, and public policies that could be said to be covetous practices.

Justification

When justification of behavior is desired, relationships may require conformity. That vain need for justification simply prompts people to conform to what ever behavior is in need of justification. When the need to justify the absence of a positive personality trait arises mutually within a society the MOB is born.

Passive justification of bad behavior in others leads the individual toward conformity to personal bad behavior which creates cognitive dissonance that will require some form of self justification, often at the expense of the truth.

Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs (a.k.a. hypocrisy), that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.

When the denial inters in to practices and behavior that censors or even oppresses another the perpetrators will be drawn into a mind set of self destruction by proxy. Denial that filters the view of the feedback from reality is denial of the truth which is self blinding behavior.

Denial of the truth is denial of the light of consciousness which will lead to a dark place tempting men to exercise authority over other men with the power they are given.

Targeting

Maladaptive behaviors inhibit your ability to adjust healthily to particular situations. In essence, they prevent you from adapting or coping well with the demands and stresses of life.

Maladaptive behaviors are dysfunctional and non-productive behaviours.

Adaptive behavior is behavior that enables a person to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others or themselves.

Adaptive behavior may relate to everyday skills or tasks, addictions, destructive or negative behavior, but also to the most fundamental virtuous social bonds of society.

A maladaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one's anxiety, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive, even counter productive or harmful.

The behaviors have a self-destructive nature to them. Because there is a singularity element to society all appearances of self-destruction will encompass destruction of others even to the point of extinction.

Maladaptive and adaptive behaviors of individuals who compose society are outlined in the Ten Commandments.

The more society abandons or denies those behavior outline the closer they move toward social extinction.

"Extinction bursts" refer to the expected and temporary escalations in the frequency, duration, and/or intensity of the maladaptive “target” behavior (i.e., tantrums).