In the current age, when we’re NOT dying at 30 as it was when those instinct were formed, using our brains is how we survive. We use logic and experience (including vicarious) to CONTROL our instincts if we’re to have any kind of civilization, and there are too d@mn many of us to survive without some sort of social agreement that does not indulge mere instinct.
Instincts do have a place, there’s no substitute for getting a “vibe” about a person or circumstance that one doesn’t have enough data about to make a purely logical decision. But it seems to me that kind of instinct is the result of controlling primitive urges.
is that where spam comes from?