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Originally Posted by swimintheundertow
You don't decide who your parents are, what country you live in or how much money you have. Everyone can't just move into a different environment. Anyway for the first 18 years of your life, the most important developmental time, you have no control over where you live(your parents decided that), the things you learn(school or parents decide what information you get) or the people you interact with (you can't help what neighborhood you live in or what school you go to).
It's not that simple. Do you know what trisomy 23, XYY means, right? It is significant. They can't help that their mom or dad's didn't perform oogenesis or spermatogenises correctly. Nondisjunction isn't their fault. The point about the chromosones is that they have more testoterone(sp?).
They've done research about identical twins seperated at birth and how similar they ended up being so similiar after being in similar financial and adult support situations.
It's not between nurture or nature. It's a mix of both but, no one has control over.
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I agree with you 100% thats it takes both nature and nurture to determine a person's action, along with free will. And just b/c someone has an over-abundance of the testosterone hormone doesnt automatically mean that they will become addcited to alcohol or commit a violent crime. And while you may not be able to control your environemnt as much for the first 18 years or so of ones life, you can choose your friends, the places where you hang out, and the types of situations that you choose to put yourself into.