I had never even heard the notion that man doesn’t have instincts. That’s the most ridiculous thing I think I’ve heard in a while. I had no idea there was a demand for someone to debunk the idea that newborns are “taught” to suckle or that an infant who essentially can’t communicate was “taught” that he shoudn’t crawl off an obvious ledge.
What a bunch of nonsense.
But it does speak to the “conflict of visions” that Thomas Sowell illucidates in his work:
