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To: jpmac who wrote (24501)	8/20/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>if a person acts from instinct, is that act moral or merely human, acting from an inate goodness, perhaps? < Hmmm. I feel that human instinct is 100% self-interested, at least in those too young to breed. That said - we all grow up in families and larger associations - church, tribe, Little League - which each in turn impress their rules of conduct upon us. I think that as we grow, our instincts are magnified and even changed by our nascent moral convictions. Thus the soldier fielding a grenade is acting counter to his instinct, but by a personal moral stance which is the product of childhood teaching/training and his own meditations upon who whe is(was). So the act becomes instinctivewithout being an instinct. Howzat for semantics in full plumage!!