Human Instict Vs Reason
We recently did debates in class and I was given the instint being stronger then reason partnered up with Brandon. We put up a strong debate and proved how instinct could be stronger then reason, even though it may not be a good thing. We showed how the human’s basic instints overpower their reason in many cases. Such a case would be a reflex where you drop something, such as a knife, even though it is dangerous to catch, you go for it anyways. we were put up against very good comments on how reason is used to make the important decisions, but luckily for us the debate was to prove that instinct is more powerful then reason and we showed instinct to come out first. Survival instinct is another proof[ that overpowers reason. We will do whatever possible to surivive and may not even stop to think of it.
In the debate I believed what I was defending and that made things come easier to mind. It was easier to prove that instinct comes naturally before reason, because for most it seems like a fact. Sometimes we are not given time to think things through and we just go with what we think is rightm and this may be good or bad. It makes things easier, but may cause us to say the wrong things or act how we normally would not act. Our reason controls us from doing things that we just want to let out, and without our reason chaos would take over. In the end, however, a great deal of our toughest decisions come from our instinct taking over.
Video At… http://youtube.com/watch?v=eplEdTE8RHo This video plays quite quickly, but after watching it several times you may start to realize the goalie throws his arms in front of his face to try to avoid getting hit by the ball even though he has very little time to think about it.
http://www.tvfactual.co.uk/human_instinct.htm I used this site’s information as part of my debate because it shows the different and main types of human instincts.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I think we did a pretty good job in our debate. I like that you used actually arguements from our debate in your blog. It does make it a lot easier to debate if you actually believe in what side your on. I agree with you that instinct is stronger and that it isn’t necessarily a good thing.