Agree or Disagree? Beg to differ? Instinct..?

Question

Thoughts on this:

Habits can be broken, even if they appear to be second nature, as all habits can be broken. However, instincts cannot be broken. Instincts can be denied, yes, but not permantly removed, they will always lie somewhere within, whether you are aware of this or not.

Why do you agree or disagree?

Thanks for being the first one to have a decent, thought-out answer, opinionat...

Lil P: Do you think maybe it could be the animal's instinct to dim its other ones while in this position?

Patois:

That was human instinct as of our prehistoric past, yes. But, these instincts did not VANISH, nor were they REMOVED... Our instincts have evolved and progressed, but we, as someone else said here "made a habit of denying our instincts", meaning it is a habit that we deny our instincts, which, over the course of time, a habit CAN become an instinct, thus it is one instinct overriding another.

Answer 1

Habits can be broken, as you say. But, instinct can be broken, too. We "instinctively" ate our young once. Raped them, too. We can rise above all of our "natural" basal rhythms, such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, slavery, incest, ect. Habits are memories and we can overcome those memories. Instincts are nothing more than genetic memory of ways that we once learned how best to survive. We can, and DO, overcome those primordial memories, too.

Answer 2

I thought about my broken habits like smoking.
Which took me some time. even though i have found the erg even after 2 years to pick up a smoke again..

So what is the difference.

I guess that took me to look at myself not as a free thinking human being but a animal.
my instinct is to stay alive, the very basic nature is to live.
So food and keeping myself warm would be the basics of my nature.
Yes it might mean that i don't have a full plate of food or a few courses in my meals, but food enough to survive on.
Same with shelter enough maybe not comfortable 1 star rating but enough to rest to carry on again.

habits we pick up are free will choices they can be here one day and gone the next..even denied.
Instincts are what we need to survive.

Just some ideas.
BB. ALD

Answer 3

I have to agree with you. I studied psychoanalysis for a while. Instincts can not be denied, but they can be redirected. Humans are very malleable in this way and we have the ability to redirect our energies in an amazing number of ways through the process of sublimation. As a matter of fact, art, civilization and cultures are all about redirecting negative instincts into more positive forms.

Answer 4

Create the habit of denying your instinct. Habits can be second nature. So therefore by repeatedly denying an instinct one can make it second nature instead of first.

Answer 5

I agree. A habit can be broken in 3 days...Instinct is innate, ever growing ever evolving.

Answer 6

I conform to a particular factor. If notwithstanding people have lots of an similar instincts as different animal life interior the international, our aggressiveness, territoriality, our willingness to blindly follow leaders. yet also have our mind and our hovering interest to study. we've idea and good judgment and we ought to continually use them extra. we ought to conform, and adapting to a ever replacing international is genuine to survival. it really is time for our minds to conform. Steven Hawking said that "Our instincts have become interior the way of our intelligence"

Answer 7

I think it would depend on the instinct. One can retrain the flight/fight instinct through combat training, but it would prob be almost impossible to retrain the "hand out of the fire" instinct.

Answer 8

you have a good point...habits are broken if needbe...but i have a thought.... say u cage up a wild animal...itwill loose its predatory instinct because it has no use for it....idk jsut thought of it...i think in certain cases it can removed...but yet it might still have the predatory instinct...you never know...good though though

Answer 9

agree

Answer 10

Sure why not