Instincts or choices?

Question

does everything begin with a choice? or are we driven by our instincts?

if we are driven by instincts, then we are completly out of control. if it's choice, then we have control over what we do.

comments are appreciated

interesting. any more inputs?

Answer 1

We all use our instincts to help us make a choice. It usually is a dual effort using instincts and knowledge of what all the possible outcomes can be. Sometimes they fight each other and we make decisions based completly on what we know not the instinct and ignore the instinct if it is telling us not to and knowledge is telling us to do it.

Answer 2

nor everything begins with instincts neither we ve a choice always. its basically the combination of two. the more resolute n refined u r the more selfcontrol u ve thus the more choices n vice versa

Answer 3

Here's the difference.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellecual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature than cannot.
-Mark Twain

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther....
The killer whales heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in all respects, is light.

There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the sun.
--Wislawa Szymborska

If you are able to pause in the middle of making a judgement, you are making a decision.

Answer 4

I BELIEVE INSTINCTS PROMPT THE IDEA AND THEN IT'S UP TO YOU TO MAKE THE CHOICE.

Answer 5

for me its choice. because you will choose to do a certain thing because that is what you really want.

Answer 6

there are no answers, only choices.