Instinctive vs Acquired Behaviour => another set of rantings…
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Going back for the Chinese New Year holidays, all your baby cousins gathered in one place, ever notice something? Usually, they are a pain. Well, the boys at least.
Baby felines wrestling with their siblings? Instinctive behavior.
Little boys smacking one another like Obi-Wan and Darth Maul? Acquired behavior, Type 1.
Blame it all on the over-dramatization of Hollywood movies and television series. Not to say all of the shows are bad. Heck, watch Discovery Channel once in a while. Or one of those "educational" series like CSI and ER. Then again, there are some advocating the message "good guys do violence, reluctantly of course, and gets away with it because he is a good guy."
And then we grow up, and learn a whole new set of acquired behavior, the "feel-good" type of behavior, Type 2. For example, the famous three: sex, drugs, and rock and roll (maybe i’m a little outdated on the latest culture?). All three have a healthy number of practitioners because it feels good to be doing them, excluding long-term effects of course. But then, who thinks more than one year into the future?
Then we grow older some more, assuming we survive to adulthood, and we learn the "manipulative" behavior, Type 3. THE most devious, in my opinion, because it lets people "do good" for other people in the name of "greater good" for the self. Or "do small evil" to a select small category of people in the name of "greater good" for the whole population. Look around, in the nightly news, daily newspapers, in history books. Hey, all the world is a stage, right?
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Lost all hope for the world yet?
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Don’t, because not all Type 1 kids mature into Type 2 teens, and (i think) into Type 3. Like little stars against the black of night, many people (young, teen, and adult) are fighting the good fight, the Type 4 people: doing good for that fuzzy, tingly feeling deep inside. Which, in my opinion, qualifies Type 4 behavior as instinctive, because one can’t convince or teach another to do "authentic" good deeds if he does not want to do it. One must achieve that particular enlightenment by oneself, only then the deeds done would be true and sincere.
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P.S. Let’s admit it: I’m a Type 3 person, so beware of me 
