One possible line of thought: Let us assume our instincts tell us to aim for our personal survival and producing offspring. And then, during the evolution it has turned out that as a species we humans tend to survive better if we don't go alone but work together as groups. A group is more capable of feeding and defending itself and taking care of the kids. I guess we have a lot of group-related behavior pre-programmed in our genetics.
And faster than our biological evolution goes our advance in techology. This has suddenly brought us to a global world. We posses technology to destroy the whole globe over and over again, we are causing major pollution and emissions, we are clear-cutting forests and overfishing the seas, causing a serious threat to the whole global ecosystem. And cultures get mixed, peoples of different traditions and religions have to deal with each other in the world of global trade and power-politics. Our instincts don't provide us with ready solutions to handle this kind of situation.
But, I do believe that our instincts and biological genetics actually do offer us everything what is needed to grow, to learn, and to progress not only in technology but also in ethics and morals. For example, Europe used to be a vast battlefield of local warlords figthing each other - until bigger kingdoms were formed and slowly people began to feel that they don't belong only to their local group but that they all belong to a same nation. World War II Germany showed us the horrific effects how far people can go in their nationalistic sense of being "us" and treating "the others" as inferior... So, I guess the next thing we need is to feel that "us" means the whole globe, the whole biosphere. We need to learn to co-operate not only with the other people but also with the forests and oceans and everything.

And, I feel that we have insticts for that, too. It is just that those age-old instincts of benevolence and co-operation need some more support and nurture to grow and to prosper =)