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To: Solon who wrote (48054)

3/4/2014 6:33:55 AM

From: koan

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Most higher animals know what will kill them. A baboon will fight out of instinct, but is smart enough to know if it will die or not.

But in humans the nature/nurture motivator can be different in different people at different times.

A dog or cat knows what not to do to avoid death.

Instinct is what most animals live by. Including humans to a larger degree than we acknowledge.

Don't pick apart minutia, what is it I am actually saying.

<<"With regard to baboons it is simple instinct"

That is not what you said. You said,

"A male baboon will attack a leopard defending the troop knowing he will die"

Being able to "know"consequences (and in particular "MORTALITY") is far beyond instinct! But more importantly, Rand never claims that reason is proper to the life or philosophy of baboons. Nor is Reason necessary to those who are content to live as brutes...