By default, we are instinctive beings

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readOct 7, 2021

Question from the Internet:

“What have you understood about humans as moral beings?”

By default we are not “moral beings”, we are simple, instinctive beings. Knowingly, unknowingly every thought, desire we have, every action we perform is instinctively motivated, governed by our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic egos.

And this ego — while it drove our incredible human development so far — also differentiates us, makes us worse than the also instinctive animals, as they also have an instinctive sense of Nature’s balance and homeostasis, and they never leave that balance, they automatically remain integrated within Nature’s system, contributing to its balance and homeostasis life depends on.

We will become “truly Human”, “moral beings”, when we develop “Nature-like” thinking, morality, responsibility above and against our original nature/program.

Then we will justify our place above the instinctive animals, as we will be integrated with each other and Nature through free choice, consciously, by our own efforts.

Nature will “help us” with this transition by putting pressure on us through different problems, crisis situations like the pandemic until we realize what we have to do and we implement the necessary self-changes.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.