Chapter 1: Post 1

After reading chapter 1, I feel that human beings definitely have an instinct for conflict.  However, I don't believe that it is because we were all born with it.  I feel that many people are extremely passionate about different aspects of their lives.  When someone views one of these aspects differently, there will be conflict because of the rock hard beliefs of both parties.  There will always be a person out there that views things differently.  I feel the instinct for conflict stems from how we perceive the things we are learning as we go through life.  People will always defend the way they think, it's human tendency to do this.  I have never met an individual who completely avoids conflict.  I don't believe conflict makes a person any less human.  Since I'm on the fence of conflict being innate, I wouldn't say that it is very valuable.  There are different ways of handling conflict and depending on how a person does this, will most likely impact how they view conflict and this instinct regarding conflict.