Nature vs. Nurture

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Nature vs. Nurture, the king of debates. When we cradle in a social environment such as school, the beach, an assembly we each have distinguishable characteristics that is pretty evident if you just take a glance around. I mean one individual might be fully engaged and and non-diffident in the social context and another might be reserved and introspective. Such variety is facilitated by two main groups of human intuitiveness; our genetic predispositions (such as a presence of a disease) and our social environment and the different nuances associated with it. Nature A prominent philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) wrote "So many authors have hastily concluded that man is naturally cruel, and requires a regular system of police to be reclaimed; whereas nothing can be more gentle than him in his primitive state, when placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the pernicious good sense of civilized man..." This, as you can see, really redefines the notion of human "servitude" to the whims (these not always being the most viable) of societal fixations. This Blank State refers to the premise that the brain is born with the blankness of a white piece of paper with the presumed ability to reform and contuse to the appropriate "figure", whatever that may be. It is the very underlying of the statement that the body and mind are separable entities that don't affect each other in the way that many people perceive them to. Remember that time during the seventh grade in which you were bullied profusely? Well theoretically that one continued action gave forth a section of your behavior that generally perpetuates anger and contempt for the public. Or remember that time when your mother and/or father routinely chastised you for your fallacies? Well that eventually led to your insecurity and humble satire. Of course this is now new

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