What's More Important When Growing Up: Nature or Nurture?

by The Big Question Posted 2012/09/06 01:11:39

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	Nature	57 votes	23%
	Nurture	196 votes	77%

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Jerry 2012/09/10 10:06:48

Nurture

...........Nurturing first..........letting the person learn by being taught from the Family Unit, the surrounding Nature, which was given to All of Us, humans by God, All of that needs to be incorporated by education from parenting, and schooling process, Nature's gifts overall, but I feel Nurturing is first, then including the qualities of Nature, afterward.........

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Jensenmk 2012/09/10 07:09:35

Nature

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Especially when society believes that nurturing means indulging whims and desires versus teaching morals, values, personal responsibility, and a valid work ethic. Whether you like it or not, nature eventually will win; either through natural selection or a self-righting 'cleansing', so you may as well learn to understand and respect nature early.

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jcadla 2012/09/08 03:07:35

Nurture

Nurture is more important than anything...

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Cricket 2012/09/07 15:10:47

Nurture

The human touch is infinitely healthy and necessary. Check out: B. F. Skinner! He kept one of his daughters in a box when she was young--to study her. Stoopid idiot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Havebntohvn 2012/09/07 01:44:52

Nurture

Without love's honest nurture, one may never enjoy true nature!

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Devin Pederson 2012/09/06 19:38:19

Nurture

Environment influences behavior, personality, etc. on a greater scale than genetics (nature), in my opinion.

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Steve 2012/09/06 19:35:31

Nurture

Early on in life especially, a child needs nurtured. Needs to feel loved and secure.

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Michelle 2012/09/06 19:34:38

Nurture

Because you can psychologically train people to act against their nature. We all tend to do this with self-control and regulation which is encouraged by our culture. Your own nature and personality are not always directly related solely to your environment, but your environment can influence you. You can be predisposed towards a lot of things (addiction, mental disorders, ect) and be able to fight against it because you were raised a certain way with certain beliefs, ect.

On the subject of twins being similar when raised separately: we are all from the same culture and can be exposed to a lot of the same things. And two twins raised together can be very different, too. Speaking of siblings raised together, they are also a weak argument for "nature" if they're different but raised in the same environment: you are "raised" by more people than just your parents. Your friends, teachers, and peers whom you do not share with your sibling can largely account for the difference.

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DP 2012/09/06 19:23:49

Nurture

As a resentful person, I wish my parents had been more loving to me and maybe I wouldn't be so coldhearted.

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hat man 2012/09/06 19:02:49

Nurture

Both. Nature will set boundaries. But nurture breeds accomplishments.

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Aes Sedai 2012/09/06 18:54:17

Nature

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This has been proven via separated identical twins.

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Ayushee 2012/09/06 18:48:16

Nature

Both I guess.

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Depsycho 2012/09/06 18:23:44

Nurture

Don't know. Don't have/want kids, so don't much care. :)

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Glen McLeod 2012/09/06 17:49:48

Nature

What kind of question is anyway?

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KB 2012/09/06 17:30:28
angel face 2012/09/06 17:29:21

Nurture

A baby needs to be nurtured beautifully. If you aren't able to be nurturing or caring for the baby then you don't need a baby. Adoption or abortion. Take your pic. That's how I feel.

Just sayin

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Gracie - Proud Conservative 2012/09/06 17:18:14

Nature

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It's kind of a misleading question because usually your nurture is related to your nature. You are raised by parents that share your genetics. I believe you are born with your own personality and it overrides most everything else. Take two children raised in the exact same environment and they can be completely different. My brother and I are as different as night and day and it doesn't have a thing to do with our childhood.

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JDreDaCookieMonster 2012/09/06 17:08:30

Nurture

You aren't born with knowledge. You are taught everything that you know, from skills to beliefs.

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bettyboop 2012/09/06 17:07:19

Nurture

Ah yes the age old question of nature vs. nurture. Genetically speaking a person can be born with many predisposed conditions. It is how a person is raised that determines who they turn out to be. Nature has some say, but nurturing is what defines who a person becomes.

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Ashley 2012/09/06 16:59:53

Nature

Nature helps kids mature faster.

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Bulanova (Team Hargitay) 2012/09/06 16:58:19

Nature

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I dunno. I had to pick one to comment. I had been feeding a stray mamma cat who ended up bringing her kittens to me. She had two that were damn near identical physically (took me months to learn to tell them apart) but couldn't be more opposite in personality. One was the friendliest, sweetest, most trusting baby I've ever met and the other, three years later and though I show him affection every day, still runs from me. They were both brought to my house very early in their lives, so I assume they went through the same experiences, and they both came from the same gene pool. I truly don't know what to think.

The skittish one is an indoor cat and only lets me pet him on rare occasions and when I am very careful. The friendly one was an outdoor cat who sadly stopped showing up about a month ago. :( I miss him. I assume the worst happened.

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wpsark_... to Bulanov... 2012/09/06 17:29:32

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I used to have a cat that would go away for months at a time and show back up all scrawny and scraggley...If it's a tom cat, he's probably just out doing what toms do.

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Bulanov... to wpsark_... 2012/09/07 02:28:45

I wish I could believe that. I've never had a cat who stayed away this long before. Monkey NEVER went away before now, not even for a week, so this would be very uncharacteristic. He was also neutered very, very early which should curtail his exploring desire a bit, and he always, always comes running to me when I call him, no matter what. But not this time. :( I guess it's been closer to a month and a half to two at this point.

When they were very young, the mother brought three up; the two twins, and then a grey and white one. The grey and white one stopped showing up about 2 months after she first brought him over. I'm pretty sure a dog or car got him, although I never found him. So given Monkey's typical behavior and the fact that I've already lost another in the neighborhood, I'm just not very optimistic about his returning. I'm slowly accepting he's gone. I just wish I could have said goodbye. :'(

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wpsark_... to Bulanov... 2012/09/07 20:23:41

+1
:-( awe well I hope he comes back to you...I was up your way trout fishing last weekend!

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Bulanov... to wpsark_... 2012/09/07 21:28:54

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Thanks. Sure miss my little Monkey! My porch is lonely without him sleeping out there and my walks to the mailbox get lonely without him too.

This is a picture I snapped of him one day sleeping draped across the porch railing. XD

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.ne...

Arkansas is such a great state for nature lovers. Did you catch any good ones? :)

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wpsark_... to Bulanov... 2012/09/14 20:15:06

awe he's purty....well they weren't really biting. Caught a few though, tasted good :-)

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ZenerSix 2012/09/06 16:46:23

Nurture

Nature provides the strengths but nurture provides the balance and direction.

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ChiTownGirl 2012/09/06 16:00:51

Nurture

+1
Nurture for sure. You see it with animals and it's the same for humans....give love, you receive love...

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LucidLoon 2012/09/06 15:59:17

Nurture

Nature and nurture both have an impact on upbringing, but I'd say nurture has the bigger one.

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Fluttershyfan 2012/09/06 15:25:14

Nurture

Nature is what you're born with, and that normally doesn't shape your life. What shapes your life is the environment you grow up in. Sometimes the nurture is affected by nature, but nurture is the key ingredient to shaping a person.

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SA 2012/09/06 15:24:54

Nurture

Definitely to me it is nurture.

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Cortland 2012/09/06 15:00:08

Nurture

There were some studies done a few years ago, the focus was hereditary predisposition to emotional disorders. Ones that were exposed to negative influence were more susceptible to borderline personality than those that were exposed to a loving enviroment.

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knoodelhed 2012/09/06 14:54:37

Nurture

The monsters - and the saints - amongst us are made. Not born.

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Huki68 2012/09/06 14:53:11

Nurture

yep

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✞Knight of Honor 2012/09/06 14:44:24

Nurture

It's 100% Nurture

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Dexder 2012/09/06 14:39:30

Nurture

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Nature (genetics) is the foundation but nurture (love, discipline and education) is the construction that will either make or break the structure.

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jacktown kid 2012/09/06 14:33:24

Nature

Let nature do it

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NarcolepticGoat 2012/09/06 14:26:21

Nurture

+2
Nature has already had her say at that point. The genetic code is set at conception. From that point forward it is up to nurture to help or hinder what nature put together.

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Jack's Pearl 2012/09/06 14:17:47

Nurture

Nurture can overcome a lot of what nature has to offer us as far as our biology is concerned.

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L1 2012/09/06 14:11:53

Nurture

Actually, I think it's both.

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