Prince, please don't take offense, but for that remark I have decreed that you shall be thrown into the Outer Darkness there to be sodomized by hyenas.
That quote sounds a bit like Locke. Not the greatest thinker. It's painfully obvious reason is merely a facet of human nature and certainly not its primary one. For most people it's a tool of convenience employed to support and justify other drives.
Dan Rowden wrote:For most people it's a tool of convenience employed to support and justify other drives.
I agree. I call this process "backward rationalization" for lack of a better term: act on impulse, then through assuming equality/self-perfection, invent a reason why it "should" be so.
For example, the classic case is the guy who wrecks his car and then says, "I meant to do that -- now I'll bike to work and Get In Shape."