Since as you say man is the animal with reason and does not act instinct, I would say you are wrong...Many people have been put in positions that acting on instinct is the only thing that saved their lives or ended it...Fight or flight is an inborn instinct. For normal people the instinct to nurture the young is inborn, as is the instinct to protect one's family from danger..If it were not so the species would have not survived. We have many instincts and also the ability to reason, some people's reasoning is faulty..
Thank you for saying I don't have to apologize for my opinion as I did not apologize for it..never would unless someone had a better argument than I and you do not have such an argument at this point...but I would not have to apologize, I would just agree and change my opinion
But I don't agree with you and everyone has a right to be wrong...I defend your right...
But at this point I think you are wrong :O)
It’s OK. I’ve been wrong before, and I no doubt, will be wrong again.
I agree that “fight or flight” is an instinct, but over the eons, we have learned from that instinct. And although animals must be taught how to hunt, and they have learned how to adapt, we are the only ones in the animal kingdom to take our knowledge to the next level.
Not just with animals, but with survival, period. We’ve learned to cultivate crops, to improve the domesticated animals that provide us with so much, and even to find new and better ways to adapt. We’ve even learned how to tame certain animals as “pets.”
I suspect, with most “wild” animals, they can only go so far in their progression. And I doubt very much that I’ll see a wild animal with a “pet.”
And Koko doesn’t count...she was a domesticated gorilla in a research center.