“There is no ‘inner’ animal, we are animals, vice is simply stubbornness and it

—“There is no ‘inner’ animal, we are animals, vice is simply stubbornness and it comes in every variety, mischief is what throws it for a loop. Daydreams, like drugs prove there’s spirit and sociality outside the claimed territories of presumed reality.”—Brian Barr

It’s not stubbornness actually. Evidence is evidence, that people have various levels of impulsivity on the one hand and frustration budgets (tolerance) on the other. And that agency is reducible in no small part to the ‘autism’ or ‘disconnected-ness’ we obtain from those impulses on one hand and the intelligence to make use of it on the other.

You can train an impulsive animal – but it’s time consuming and expensive. You can train a stupid animal less so, but it’s more time consuming and expensive. Or you can train non-impulsive animal, and a not-stupid animal and it’s far less time consuming and expensive. moreover the failure rate is much lower, and the consequences of failure much lower.