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Date Posted: 07:04:30 01/23/08 Wed
Author: Kiernan
Subject: Re: Desire vs. Instinct, Determinism vs. Will
In reply to: HWAET! 's message, "Desire vs. Instinct, Determinism vs. Will" on 14:42:43 01/21/08 Mon

Perhaps a helpful distinction could be made here between habit and instinct. Humans are creatures of habit; we do one thing, and continue in that pattern indeterminately because we once did it. Just because, however, I habitually hate my neighbors because I have always done it, however, does not mean that my desire to do so is instinctual. Rather, I have made a habit imitating someone in such hatred, but, at some point in my life, I began choosing to imitate that person. Instinct seems much more connected to the essential needs about which Dr. Jackson was speaking(not that such needs cannot also be chosen, but in general the connection seems to work this way).

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