What a stupid standpoint.
Do we also learn our species behavior?
If all is a product of nurturing then how do species come about, how to sexual types evolve, what makes one species splinter off from another?
Your inherited nurturing, the sum of all previous nurturing (your nature) determines the peer and lower limits of your possibilities. Nurturing determines where within these limits you will fall.
The idea of a tabula rasa is absurd…and a liberal pacifier.
• The theory of self-deception was foreshadowed by the sociologist Erving Goffman in his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which disputed the romantic notion that behind the masks we show other people in the one true self. No, said Goffman; its masks all the way down. Many discoveries in the ensuing decades have born him out.
• Though modern psychologists and psychiatrists tend to reject orthodox Freudian theory, many acknowledge that Freud was right about the defence mechanisms of the ego. Any therapist will tell you that people protest too much, deny or repress unpleasant facts, project their flaws unto others, turn their discomfort into abstract intellectual problems, distract themselves with time-consuming activities, and rationalize away motives. The psychiatrists Randolph Nesse and Alan Lloyd have argued that these habits do not safeguard against bizarre sexual wishes and fears (like having sex with one’s mother) but are tactics of self-deception: they suppress evidence that we are not beneficent as we would like to think.
My “intentions”?
Why, are we dating?
I assure you dear girl my intentions are noble.
I seek personal growth, pleasure and to commune with those of my kind.
My positions on race go beyond mere genetics.
Genes are inherited possibilities. Memes are far more important, particularly in a globalizing world where race mixing has made the lines blurry.
But memes, the spirit if you will, is grounded in genes, or on the past.
To know your past and to accept all of it as necessary is to know yourself…it is to be self-conscious. To be self-conscious increases the possibility that you can direct your energies more effectively. Not squandering them away by pursuing goals that will not satisfy the essence of the man.