He's not a beast... he doesn't have to be one. Whilst he shudn't be ignoring his instincts, he does not have to bow down to them. He has the gift of intelligence and discretion at his disposal. To differentiate between right and wrong, gud and bad, is what separates him from the animals.
You may not be able to control what ur instincts tel u to do, but u can very well stop from retracing ur steps back into becoming beasts, by using ur power of discretion to act against them!
While instinct in the form of thoughtless recklessness can be destructive...sometimes calculative risks do work...
ReplyDeleteCalculative risks need a blend of instinct and discretion... both...however...there's a heavy bias of instinct in it...
In which case instinct and intelligence work in tandem and not against each other..
@ Mutts - Agreed.
ReplyDeleteI guess u learn with time that some decisions need a mix of both, some need only discretion and some solely need ur instinct...
How u classify each circumstance probably darkens the dividing line between man and beast.
talkin abt calculative risks..i guess,d only time the discretion is used, is only during d calculations..d final execution,is jst abt the instincts..So again,its always the latter..Nothin Else!!
ReplyDeleteGud thot!.Gud post!
@ Sandy - Well, the calculations are what matter. Thats where u use ur intelligence...or the lack of it. Thats where the decision is done, everything else is just a matter of thoughtless execution!
ReplyDeleteAnd ya, thanks!