Well, that’s basically my question to you, actually.
That is: you’re saying you don’t believe in pre-existing desires, and believe instead in desires that emerge from a variety of influences (inborn, cultural, situational, cognitive, and experiential).
I’m not really sure what the difference between those two things even is, in terms of anticipated experience, so I’m not sure there’s any meaningful difference to be discussed.
For my own part, when a pattern of desire is common across multiple cultures and situations and individuals, I’m not inclined to treat it as primarily an emergent property of cultural, situational, or experiential influences.
Well, that’s basically my question to you, actually.
That is: you’re saying you don’t believe in pre-existing desires, and believe instead in desires that emerge from a variety of influences (inborn, cultural, situational, cognitive, and experiential).
I’m not really sure what the difference between those two things even is, in terms of anticipated experience, so I’m not sure there’s any meaningful difference to be discussed.
For my own part, when a pattern of desire is common across multiple cultures and situations and individuals, I’m not inclined to treat it as primarily an emergent property of cultural, situational, or experiential influences.