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Post by daltonmallery on Oct 24, 2014 0:14:04 GMT
In nature vs. nurture, I believe that nurture is more important. The way that your parents raise you has a big influence on how you will act later in life, such as they way they conduct themselves, how they discipline you, and how they are involved in your day to day life. An example from "In Cold Blood" would be that the murders are not brought up as well as the Children in the Clutter family. This leads to later in life the murders making poor decisions and ending up on the wrong path while the Clutter children end up making better life decisions.
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Post by oscarheithaus on Oct 24, 2014 3:15:32 GMT
Although I agree with you on the ideal that nurture is more influential upon the development of a person than nature, you classify nurture in a spectrum that i believe is not broad enough. You explain it as the way someone is raised by their parents, however this is only a part of the effects of nurture upon individual development. Every experience you expose yourself to, you are influenced, and this is what makes you individual. This also explains how children from loving families can become terrible people, or children from parental abandonment can go on to accomplish great things. This is just like how the experiences of Dick and Perry within their lives after their parental raising can be recorded upon their ever developing mind as some of those are recorded upon their body in the form of their many tattoos.
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Post by bradymccormick on Oct 24, 2014 21:37:41 GMT
I totally agree with oscur. Although Nurture most likely plays a larger part in someones personality, it has been scientificaly proven that the first 6 weeks of childs life outside the womb set a basis for that persons personality. Although i believe Dick and Perry had some physcological dissorders, I do not believe that they were born killers. They both had traumatizing childhoods which could lead to a personality dissorder. Many physcologists who have studied the minds of serial killers claim that the killers frontal lobes (part of brain) dont function properly. All together I firmly believe that Dick and Perry were traumatized as children, which most likely lead to them ending up in jail, which would only physcologically scar them more, also Dick and Perry seem to be decently good friends which makes me believe that they do not have any SERIOUS personality dissorder. They were decent people who had been delt a bad hand
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