It is true that people can choose to do things the
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Posted On: 03/02/2018 10:12:40 PM
It is true that people can choose to do things they know other people think are wrong.
It is even true that people can choose to do things that they believe are wrong for others while trying to benefit themselves.
However, people do not choose to do things that they perceive in the moment of decision to be wrong (harmful) for themselves. Humans have a powerful instinct for benefiting themselves. Even when there is an obvious inherent self harm in the action, people can do wrong and cause harm while their goal is to seek after the good they believe will benefit them. Our objective knowledge is often subordinated to the power of our intuitive personal self-understanding. It is our personal intuition into a sense of our own well being that causes us to choose to do, or have a compulsion to do, a particular wrong even when that wrongdoing will obviously harm us.
We have an instinct to engage in our own personal calculus about what is best for our own well being.
It is even true that people can choose to do things that they believe are wrong for others while trying to benefit themselves.
However, people do not choose to do things that they perceive in the moment of decision to be wrong (harmful) for themselves. Humans have a powerful instinct for benefiting themselves. Even when there is an obvious inherent self harm in the action, people can do wrong and cause harm while their goal is to seek after the good they believe will benefit them. Our objective knowledge is often subordinated to the power of our intuitive personal self-understanding. It is our personal intuition into a sense of our own well being that causes us to choose to do, or have a compulsion to do, a particular wrong even when that wrongdoing will obviously harm us.
We have an instinct to engage in our own personal calculus about what is best for our own well being.
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