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"What part of man does the desire to be kind come from? Is it a rational impulse, based on logic and reason, from our conscious and analytical thought processes? Is it an instinct, bred into us by nature? Is it part of some conditioning that we receive through our upbringing? Or is it something more innate than any of those things?"

I don't necessarily see any difference between any of those things in a naturalistic construct. Behaviorists, in fact, teach just that - that even "logic and reason" are just conditioned responses based on chemically predetermined instinctual activity.

[Boogieman]

“I don’t necessarily see any difference between any of those things in a naturalistic construct.”

Really? No difference between conscious thought, conditioned responses, instincts, or some other part of our nature?

If that is true, then we are no different than animals. Yet, we can see that is not the case, because we possess attributes that animals cannot. So something must make us different, and that thing must not be possessed by creatures which are nearly biologically identical to us.