[lbo-talk] they don't make mega-bears like they used to

[Chris Doss]

Technically, human beings don't have instincts at all. An instinct is a biologically inherited, complex system of behavior, like beavers building dams or spiders weaving webs. You guys must mean "impulses" or something.

--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> 
> ^^^^
> CB: This is incorrect use of the term "instinct".
> Money making and money loving are not instinctive , but
> "socially constructed" , cultural, historical. 
> For 99% of human existence, in the early part of which
> period human instincts were formed , there was no such thing
> as money.