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Francis Galton had once said that “Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; Nurture is every influence that affects him after his birth.” The nature vs. nurture debate is over whether children develop their physiological attributes based on genetics, which is “Nature” or how they were raised, also known as “nurture”. This argument can be traced back a few millenniums, or at least as far back as someone can wonder. In 350 B.C., philosophers asked the same question on human behavior. Plato and Aristotle were both philosophers with two different views on the issue. Plato believed that knowledge and behavior were due to innate factors, but environmental factors still played a role in the equation. Aristotle believed differently though. He believed in the thought of “ tabula rasa,” which means blank state. This thought concluded that everyone is born mindless; you gain your own unique knowledge and behavior from your experiences. Things such as personality, intelligence, sexuality, phobias, shyness, gender identification, attitude and habits are all created new. Many children around the world are abused and abandoned by their parents and are grown up with little or no human interaction, sometimes along with animals. These children are called feral children. A widely known case of this was in the late 1970’s with a girl named Genie. Until she was thirteen years old, she lived in complete isolation. She had never learned to speak and was the size of a six year old, instead of the size of a teenager. When she recovered from her abusive father, she was believed to be autistic, because of her severe disability with social interaction, but it was the fact that she was isolated and abused her whole life that caused her to act this way. His helps the nurture debate, because it proves that due to the fact that there was no interaction with humans, this child did not know any social characteristics. There are many cases around the world where there are children that grow up with animals and when they are found they mimic everything that the animals do. Francis Dalton had done many studies, which stated that many identical twins stay the same throughout their whole lives, but not only in appearance but also ailments, personalities, and interests. One pair of twins he studied suffered a severe toothache in the same tooth, in the same age. One pair of obviously similar twins who were separated at birth but reunited in 1979, both smoked and shared several interests along with dislikes. They both also had wives named Betty, ex-wives named Linda, had dogs named toy and also named their first-born child James Allen. This debate over nature vs. nurture will always have cases and thoughts that will help both sides of this argument, but it is very hard to exactly tell which one is right and which one is wrong.
Nature versus Nurture.
From my point of view at the perception of life, I would I agree with the Aristotle’s philosophy of Nature vs Nurture. I believe that children come directly from cosmos and they have so much energy. Their mind absorbs a lot of new information, and they learn by mimicking their parents and their surroundings. I believe that certain behaviors are learned, for example, in 1970’s the girl was found living with dogs in the forest in Ukraine. In her story, she was acting like a dog, she was barking and she did not understand the language of humans. She was completely isolated from the society and she was raised by the dogs. From this case, this is a fact to prove the nurture system, that our mind absorbs the new information and mirrors the actions of our surroundings.
In the case of identical twins, I believe that two babies born at the same time, come directly from cosmos. They have strong energy connection with each other even miles away. They can sense each other’s pain and may experience telepathy. Since they share almost same genetic information. For instance, from the video above, we were informed that same identical twins that grew up apart from each other, had a lot of similarities, from smoking to naming their dogs toy, having the wives Betty and etc. In my opinion, the energy relationship with these kids were so strong that they could directly sense each other’s thoughts and feelings. It may be because of the nature, sharing some similar chromosomes of genetic material.
In case of homosexuality, I believe that it is nurture. Since children absorb new information to their minds, they store this information and start mirroring their surroundings. I believe that homosexuality is a learned behavior in their minds. I think the homosexuality is increasing, because a lot of boys are being raised by their single mothers and lack the male interactions, such as going fishing, hunting, or helping father to repair his car. I believe that boys at early age receive a lot of female energy, then they may like it, and mirror it.