It's instinctive for a dog to bark at an enemy, but if one is trained not to, or taught it to be wrong it will stop. Will it not. But the act to bark is still instinctive. Any animal can be taught to go againsed its instincts. It's just that no one is there to teach it so. A human is taught by it's moralities, and it's culture. We have a higher level of thinking, laws, morals, these go above our instincts. So we don't act like animals. Name one instincs that an animal has that it can't be taught otherwise. SDuch as the previous example of a dog that barks. The only thing we have to do to stop it is to teach it otherwise. In school we our taught proper edicit, and manners, and all of that other crap. These deprive us of our natural primortal INSTINCTS. Sure, we have a choice, because we have been taught that things such as fighting will have consequences, and we will have to abide by our own morals and rules to keep us from living those consequenses. We have instincts, but we also have a higher level of thinking that goes beyond our instincts.
So stop contridicting the obvious.
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