"Instinct" is a word that the scientific mind concocted to describe behaviour that they can find no specific explanation for. Instinct is divine intelligence. It is divine intelligence that also produces great works of art, and scientific breakthroughs by great minds, and that enabled that goose to alert the town about the bombings.

Bald Eagle - good question. All is sacred and all is good, but that doesn't mean that all is desirable from any specific individual's point of view. To be burned is not desirable, but in an experiential sense it is very useful, because from it you gain knowledge and will know how to avoid getting burned again...so in that sense it is good! That's the paradox of reality.

We cannot understand "good" at all, until we have a chance to compare it to "evil" in a relative world. We cannot understand honesty until we have witnessed and experienced dishonesty. The killer or thief is not morally upright in the normal sense of morality, but his actions serve as an enlightening catalyst to the entire human community around him.

Hitler, in a conscious sense, was deluded, and thought that he was defending various of his own people against various evil-doers (as he saw it). His actions were very reprehensible to the majority of humanity, while heroic in the eyes of his followers. So it has ever been. I have known a few elderly Germans who still consider Hitler to have been a fine and idealistic man who was betrayed by unscrupulous lieutenants (such as Himmler and Goering, etc.). People are capable of believing anything.

I do not judge the person, but the person's actions. Hitler's actions were disastrous, misguided, and horrific. Mother Teresa's actions were exemplary. I will always try to avoid dangerous individuals, and I will support efforts to stop them from hurting people, but I will not judge their essential worth as human souls.

We learn from both the good and the evil that is around us. We learn to pursue the good, to be inspired by it, to follow in its path. We learn to abhore the evil, to learn from it, to turn away from it toward the good.

Jesus was able to forgive even those who crucified him, because he knew that all beings are of one spirit, and that Spirit has no blemish. Those who crucified him did not know this. And they knew not what they were doing.

Everyone is morally distinguishable from everyone else, so we need to observe people carefully, and judge their actions accordingly...and, if necessary, oppose them...even sometimes, to the death, I am sad to say. Each one of us must decide on our own. There is a time for all things.

I hope this is a clear answer to your question.