/lit/ - Literature

Patterns of human behavior change over time, with age, different societies, places, events, etc. Human nature is not rigid, it can alter to the point of becoming unrecognizable, and has done so several times throughout history. Animal nature in humans cannot change, that's correct, but it's largely circumvented by our human rationality. When Jordan Peterson says women wear lipstick to mimic the color of a vagina, that angers people, because while it might have had that function, now it serves other functions, and simply stating that the original function is still largely the one at play is then ignoring everything else, including the individual's choice to do otherwise. The fact that most people are not even aware of the history of lipstick, and will not be able to tell it's to mimic a vagina will tell you that lipstick is not fulfilling that role.

We could argue that lipstick then serves a deeper instinct, but the desire to go against our animal nature is often much stronger than human nature itself, because a lot of things we consider to be animal nature are not very beneficial to society.

Your brain will alter according to this acceptance of new choice, it rearranges neutral synapses and it becomes much easier to follow human desire over animal nature. What we choose to seek out alters us from one another, it makes us individuals based on what we decide to do. It's dangerous to say otherwise, because it assumes that human beings are defined by their animal nature, when pretty much every scientist will disagree except for a handful of scientists that don't. Human nature then plays a much more vital role, but nobody ignores animal nature unless they're some faux-controversial political group people love to target to justify their own beliefs. It becomes either - or, and we then absolutely have to defend the idea of animal nature against the idea of human nature.

Whether animal nature is even rational is an ongoing debate with two sides making very good arguments, therefore the idea that animal nature is something we should follow and trust over human nature is not an argument worthy of being made.