➡️ Animals dont only have instinct but can be intelligent too!!!
Animal intelligence is a field of studies. It basically explores animals' cognitive abilities like their propencity to learn, their memory, their communication skills, decision making or problem solvings abilities... THis is done on many levels and on multiple species among which you find:
- Crows and magpies using various tools to solve multi-steps problems (often compared by mainstream press as "as smart as 8 years old kids when it comes to tool manipulation/task solving)
- Learning in Elephants, canids, great apes... often, chimpanzees learn to use tools/learn behaviour through observation of their peers, like you learn weird trends on tiktok by watching questionnably intelligent people.
- Communication in great apes, bird... orcas. Orcas being especially interesting because they also have a different way to communicate depending on their group/region; which push some people to speak about not only intelligence, but culture.
Similarly and closer to us: if you have a dog and teach it to bring back the ball (bonus if giving back), it's learning, not instinct. Same if your cat runs when hearing the sounds of food; learning patterns. Mine has learnt that if I open the door of my room, it means he has time to go to eat quickly, come back, and rush to an empty seat to forces me to pay attention to him, play with him, and get slightly annoyed.
Surely, it's not always the case and a spider building a web is an instinctive behaviour, but there is no serious scientific debate over whether animals demonstrate intelligence or not, and if one doubts it, then I would reming them that humans are animals too,not some weird plants or pebbles.
➡️ Every person has insecurities EVEN if it looks like they are only super confident.
I don't know, maybe there is a person in this world who is so confident that he believes nothing wrong can ever happen?
➡️ Instead of spending MORE money on armies countries should spend THAT money against hunger and for peace projects.
I don't believe you can solve hunger with money, but having an army strong enough sure deters other from making war on your territory, hence bring relative peace.