Originally Posted by darrianation

During a scientific experiment, scientists placed four monkeys in a cage. Inside was a latter going through an opening at the top. At the top of the latter was a bunch of bananas. One of the monkeys looked up, saw the bananas, and decided to climb the latter. He ascended the latter and once at the top he reached for a banana and the scientists sent a jolt of electricity into the cage. The whole cage was wired not just the latter. All the monkeys received a nasty shock and the monkey at the top came crashing down.

The scientists took one of the monkeys out and placed a new monkey in the cage. The new monkey looked up and saw the bananas and ascended the latter. Zap…the monkeys again were electrocuted. Again a monkey was taken out and a new one was placed in. And the whole routine was repeated.

After a 100 or so revolutions and long after all the original monkeys were gone, one of the new monkeys started up the latter. Chaos broke out, screaming and in a frenzy the other monkeys jump the newbie and beat the living shit out of him. Bruised and bleeding the new monkey looked up and asked one of the other monkeys “Why did you do that?” The queried monkey answered “I don’t know that’s the way it’s always been done.”

The moral of the story is, many folks when it comes to their training, are just spanking their monkeys and they don’t even know why.