Rationality, Perfectability, Mutability

I do not believe in the three premises. They seem a little... odd to me.

Rationality Premise
Believing that people will find truth through "logical analysis" and that "the average person can be trusted to make good decision," makes no sense to me. Have you met the average person? The average person will have tried several types of drugs by the time they are 21, and have had at least one run-in with the law. The average person is not capable of good decisions; if they were, we wouldn't have a million laws in place, like wearing your seat belt (come on really? The average person wasn't wearing it, so they made a law to NOT MAKE YOU DIE).

Perfectability Premise
That people are born in sin? We are not in the 1700s. I do not believe in god, like the premise states: is based on the old Puritan idea," and therefore believe this is the worst premises I have ever heard. Despite the foundation that we have a seperation of church and state, both seemed to be based on this premise. Some religions do believe that you have to work to become good. Most politictions have to fight to show how good they are.

Mutability Premise
I'm not even sure if I understand this one completely. From what I gather, this is what our culture does. It shapes who we are and believes we can improve ourselves through "physical and psychological circumstances." As in school, higher education, working out, and I would even argue surgury. One, surgury current falls in-line with our enviromental factors, and two, it improves our physical circumstances, even though we didn't work for it.

There ya go.