i think the jury will never return a verdict on the whole nature/nurture thing...
it's a bit of both surely? pooffy pants. and anyway 'personality' is so multi-faceted that while i'm happy to accept that sexuality can be predetermined and is not a choice, although it surely can be, i think most or many of the most superficial, and therefore most obvious, aspects of personality are massively influenced by nurture not nature.
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I say it is both,
but you seem to be saying it is entirely nurture.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 8 Feb 2013, 17:08,
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and i quote you.... 'I think most of personality is genetic'...
you mis-perceive me. all i was saying was that gender is a social construct and then you went and started talking about animals.
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Well, I'd rephrase that as
'I think most personality traits have a genetic basis'. Yes, you need society to trigger them, and that is where I'd say social constructs come into it. However, I doubt society can create them.
I felt you were saying that there are no non-physical gender differences at all without society's involvement, hence why examples of it in the animal kingdom are interesting.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 8 Feb 2013, 17:35,
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