6.16.20 // Nature versus Nurture

Nature versus Nurture.
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Is human behavior determined by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or by a person's genes?
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This has been a thought rattling around in my head for days given the current climate of conversation.
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How we were raised, mostly unintentionally, lead us to current sets of beliefs, our social place, how we interact with the world, how we think, the level to what we feel.
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But in nurture, at what point as we grow up do we need to break away and think for ourselves, challenge our belief systems, and find our own way?
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The world is different now, the access to information is endless, the conversations and connections through the internet are infinite. Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy are no longer valid excuses with each of us holding a tiny world in the palm of our hand disguised as a smartphone.
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I have no answers, only questions, only thoughts.
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And after that philosophical ramble (welcome to my brain on the daily) is a picture of me giving a nurturing puppy pep-talk to Scout in the desert of New Mexico :)