What ' s the motivation being locking them up and spending money on holding them hostage ? Wouldn ' t it be more financially logical to just remove them from this earth ? What ' s the motivation behind trying to educate thirdworld countries to get to a firstworld level when there ' s already way too many people in the world ? What ' s the motivation behind spending resources trying to keep dying people alive for a tiny bit longer when we ' re all going to die anyway ? Where you draw the line is a personal taste . <| sep |> a knee slapper ! !! 😂 <| sep |> well , as you probably know , the perspective that we approach an issue from will modify what we perceive . we are not truly accurate at perceiving ourselves our issues , selfideal , and superego all get in the way of accurately seeing ourselves . so , i ' m not sure that there is a purely behavioral point of view that we can perceive with respect to ourselves . the whole point here is to go beyond the surface and understand the limitations that have defined us . it is a bit grandiose to think that we have the potential to change and modulate our selves in the way you describe . i would say that we can and do modulate our selfperceptions but that is a basic function of ego an interaction between the superego and the idealized self . many things are pushed into the unconscious . we need to remember that whatever is channeled into ego ends up being distorted . the nonprimarysecondary instinct is not dead or missing , it is just expressed in a less distorted fashion compared to the others . it is still very much expressed . it ' s a matter of the degree of distortion and that is not something that is always easy to selfperceive , much less perceive in others .