I’d object because your definition inserts an implied “and the situation is normal” into the definition.
There are possible privileged situations, however. If you are in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, living with your tribe out on the African savannah, how many days per year are you going to have an “inclination” to kill another human, vs. how many days are you going to have an “inclination” to eat, have sex and socialize. I’m guessing the difference is something like 1 vs. 360, unless tribal conflicts were much more common in that environment than I expect, and people desired to kill during those conflicts more than I expect (furthermore I would expect people to see it as an unfortunate but necessary action, which doesn’t jive with my sense of the definition of “inclination”, but that’s not critical to the point). Clearly putting them on the same level carves up human behavior in a particular way which is not obvious just from the term “natural inclination.”
That all seems fair to me. To be honest I haven’t read enough of the context to know how relevant these distinctions are to it, and I agree the term seems problematic which is all the more reason that trying to nail it down is actually useful behavior, hence MrMind’s concern, I guess.
There are possible privileged situations, however. If you are in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, living with your tribe out on the African savannah, how many days per year are you going to have an “inclination” to kill another human, vs. how many days are you going to have an “inclination” to eat, have sex and socialize. I’m guessing the difference is something like 1 vs. 360, unless tribal conflicts were much more common in that environment than I expect, and people desired to kill during those conflicts more than I expect (furthermore I would expect people to see it as an unfortunate but necessary action, which doesn’t jive with my sense of the definition of “inclination”, but that’s not critical to the point). Clearly putting them on the same level carves up human behavior in a particular way which is not obvious just from the term “natural inclination.”
That all seems fair to me. To be honest I haven’t read enough of the context to know how relevant these distinctions are to it, and I agree the term seems problematic which is all the more reason that trying to nail it down is actually useful behavior, hence MrMind’s concern, I guess.