Birdjaguar said:
What weapon or tool do chimps have that people don't? How about chickens or bluebirds? Earthworms?
Chimps = A chimp's role is less than their abilities indicate. They are not strict vegetarians but they are primarily vegetarians. They do in fact eat meat but usually in the form of small animals such as birds and insects. Sometimes, on occasion they will even form hunting groups and hunt wild pigs or such. They have intellect and strength (8 times that of a human that is 2 times their size) as their primary tools as well as longer arms to reach fruit hanging from braches that could not support their weight. But the key thing to note here is that they do not hunt more than they need and they dont even hunt animals beyond what is neccessary as they mostly do forage for fruits and vegetation. Apes no doubt are the closest thing to humans, but they are still seperate due to the fact that instinct tell them to not "get greedy" and just start stockpiling food unnessesarily.
Bluebird = A Bluebird's role is population control on insects, as are most bird's. Their tools would be flight by use of wings.
Earthworm = An earthworm's role is to loosen the soil for root to grow. Everything it needs is in the ground to survive, thus it rarely needs to come to the surface. They have a role and they do it without any real major tool other than the ability to breath through its skin.
The tool is usually defined by the role.
Instinct is the expression of genetically controlled behavior. People have many genetically controlled behaviors that have nothing to do with morality including your personality. Even the fundamentals of what humans belief is beautiful is hard wired in our genes. Hyumans certainly have an instinctive need to dominate and control as well as to organize and understand. Our tool for that is our intellect.
Instinct - An inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli: the spawning instinct in salmon; altruistic instincts in social animals.
Genetics may have a role in instinct but the defining factor is the environment and the animal involved. Instinct tells an animal that when food is abundant, this would be a great place to stay around. Instinct guides most animals through their entire lives and humans are seperate from this, as we have proven. It was not instinct that made us "want to sail a boat of the edge of the world to prove a point" it was the decision we made despite what seems obvious consequence. We ignore the laws of nature in becoming better than we are already. We in science terms "push our own evolution" whereas instinct would tell an animal "this is dangerous back off".
Totally bogus. The fact that people do bad things does not mean that they choose to do them. The implication here is that people are born pure and good and act badly because they choose to or other people or situations make them. Wishful thinking. I would suggest that 70-80% of what you do everyday is predetermined by your genes.
lol Bold by me, did the devil MAKE them do it? This statement is ludicrous.
I am not saying people are born good. IMO people are born neutral. But just because your father is an abusive alcoholic does not mean the child will be. Genetics have a small role in interests, veiwpoints, and even goals sometimes I will admit. But not 70-80%. I would say closer to 10-15%. You at any time can change how you decide to view something for any number of reasons. I find it lame that so many people refuse to believe that they are not simply drones to instinct and genes... like animals.
'Balance' certainly doesn't mean peace....
