From what I can see around me I’d dare to say that particular instinct is prevailing.

http://mangans.blogspot.com/2007/07/human-universals.html

I’m still thinking about what you said…but in the meantime here’s something about Marc Hauser (and Noam Chomsky) for you to think about :

http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0960982207012523

Instincts are never learned or thought of. They are naturally intrinsec to living beings.

But perhaps as Tyger says, we need a little more to know what you are really thinking of.

“Why does everybody take for granted that we don’t learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms ?

“Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of development of moral systems, there’s a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgement and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range” (Noam Chomsky – quoted in “Moral Minds” by Marc Hauser – Harper Collins – 2006).

That’s what I want to write a book about – and applying Mega Motivation Theory to that…

But I think this discussion which is centered on the US’s behaviour re Iraq, should be deviated a little bit to express why the US has acted as the means, because the country has acted as the means of the oil companies and all other corporations interested in keeping oil as the main source of energy, for obvious reasons.

Matters, horwever, are becoming more and more difficult for Bush and Co.: the Turks massing up forces at the frontier, the oil unions striking to make the government stop the process of “donating” the oil to the international oilers, and on top of that the so-called insurgents – in my opinion patriotic guerrilla – suicide-bombing and otherwise-bombing around.

Let’s think more in those corporations than in the US as a state whose inhabitants may not have anything to do with the invasion, if only a bit irresponsible for not having checked the lies spread by their rogue government.