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To: Bridge Player who wrote (128155)	7/29/2005 9:56:48 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) of 793883

If I inadvertently place my hand on a hot stove and quickly withdraw it, you may wish to call that behavior "purple". I call it "instinct". Calling it instinct is simply saying you do it for some reason which you cannot fully describe, yet which is beneficial in this case. Get a modern college biology textbook and read the description of instinct. It will say what I say it is, a word that covers our ignorance. The use of good and evil for explanatory reasons for human actions are similar to the use of instinct when referring to animal behavior: OK for placing a label that most people feel comfortable with, but totally useless if you want to understand the causal reasons.

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