Nature, as the word insinuates, is what we inherited from our parent's strictly by being conceived. We inherited our eye color, hair color and any other physical attributes that can be "seen" by the human eye. The argument that nature influences us the most also suggests that we are predetermined to act like our parents, be mental equals to our parents, and have similar personalities. But nature seems to neglect the different life experiences we go through as we mature.
For instance, when we begin to walk (at a young age) we deduct that to get from point A to point B we must avoid obstacles (a kitchen table, a wall etc.). According to the nature debate we "just know" that walking through a table is not acceptable because we inherited that from our parents (after all they don't walk through tables).
Another example of nature in action could be that of a kitten. A kitten seems to "just know" that in order to relieve themselves they must use a litter box. There is no training involved no error involved in the process. How does that work?
Nurture on the other hands argues that it is our life experiences that tailor who we become as adults. Nurture suggests that we are molded by the experiences we encounter throughout life. Every experience we go through somehow teaches us to conquer another experience.
If we revisit our learning to walk analogy one could assume that there were many tables that were walked into prior to "mastering" the skill of walking. In essence as a toddler we learned to not walk through tables but to walk around those obstacles in our mission. Bringing nurture into play because we "learned" that it is indeed impossible to walk through an inanimate object at some point.
However nurture is unable to explain our kitten analogy above. Nurture is more inclined to suggest that kittens somehow learned to utilize a litter box rather than "just knowing" from birth to do so.
It stands to mention that both nature and nurture must come into play in both our walking and kitten analogy. Had our new walker not bumped into a few tables along the way (or used those tables as a "guide") he or she would not have "learned" to avoid tables. On the other hand our kitten has never used a litter box before but inherently knows that it is the only acceptable way to relieve themselves.
I believe that nature and nurture both come into play at certain points in our lives. I also believe that we are prone to make similar decisions to that of our parents, have similar desires and emotions as that of our parents. However, along the way as we experience life we tend to build our own personas based off of the experience we go through. Not the experiences our parents (after all we were yet to be conceived) went through to become the human beings they are.
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