Sunday, March 3, 2013

Nature vs. Nurture.

On the topic concerning nature vs. nurture, I believe that both factor into the equation, however, I always find myself leaning more towards nature. For example, think of child prodigies. You can't teach them to be a genius, it's all in their DNA. You cannot nurture a child to have brown hair and blue eyes. DNA is something that we cannot escape, or change. 

However, I was reading an article online, and a person was arguing that DNA (nature), gives us a lot of our basics in life, (hair colour, eye colour, intelligence, etc.), and nurture allows us to build on those givens. 

Needless to say, although I read that article, I still think that most of who we are comes from nature, everything else is merely just a factor. 

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