"Unlike an animal man is not told by instincts what he must do. And unlike man in former times he is no longer told by traditions what he should do. Often he doesn't even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead either he wishes to do what other people do - conformism - or he does what other people wish him to do - totalitarianism."

- Viktor Frankl

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This slaps

Big ups to Mr. Frankl.

Exactly like the animal we are, humans are strongly driven by instincts, but society (mostly by means of idiotic religious beliefs) makes us learn to shut them down and behave in weird manners no other fellow animal would ever do.