Respondent: OK, so it is a metaphorical button. And,
it is a metaphorical ‘pressing’ of that metaphorical button.
Richard: Here is my initial response:
• [Richard]: ‘... it is writ large all over The Actual Freedom Trust web
site that the altruistic instinct (aka altruism) is what initiates the process. [endquote].
As this is in accord with what the figurative expression ‘press the
button’ refers to (as in the ‘initiate an action or train of events’ phrasing above), and as it is daring to care
altruistically about all the misery and mayhem that epitomises the human condition which sets in motion the
corresponding altruistic process that will ensure peace-on-earth, in this lifetime as this flesh and blood body, it is
anything but a ‘metaphorical’ initiating and anything but a ‘metaphorical’ action or train of
events ... it is a once-in-a-lifetime initialisation of a never-to-be repeated process/action/train of events.
Put simply: it takes a powerful instinct (altruism) to overcome a powerful
instinct (selfism). 
Richard, List AF, No
53, 21.4.2004
