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Are people products of nature or nurture? This controversial subject has been debated for centuries. I strongly believe that an individual's behavior, intelligence, and personality are predetermined by your genes. This reflection will present the case that human behavior is determined by genetics.

We have over 30,000 genes that determine our body structure, and features such as eye color and hair. Our genetics also determines the types of emotions we can experience, such as joy, sadness, and fear. Any completely new emotion we experience would require an evolutionary change to our genetic material - meaning that our 'nurture' is actually our experiences over a lifetime. These experiences are what motivate us and create our emotions (our 'inner eye'). “Our inner eye draws us toward certain experiences, and ignores others. Society may tell us to act in certain ways, but if our inner eye does not motivate us to do what society tells us, we will not do it.” (1) While most people are motivated by the dictates of culture, there are those who are not. “Society formed because people have a genetic impulse to group together.” (1)The tendency to feel loneliness and isolation when away from society is genetic, as all emotions are. Culture is an expression of our common tendencies as individuals. So the messages society gives back to individuals must also be partly genetic.

Human behavior based on nurture is a wrong assumption and is in fact an example of post hoc fallacy. Nurture and behaviorists alike, all assume that because nurture precedes particular behavioral patterns or characteristics that society and nurture is the cause. To say that the way someone acts is because of his or her upbringing is kind of an excuse. For example, a student decides to commit suicide after failing a test created by Ms. Parkash. That does not mean every student who failed the test will commit suicide because “our inner eye responds in different ways to different environments, but no two people respond the same way in the same situation, due to the distribution of traits across society.” (1) Nurture can never go beyond the framework that nature provides. Nature limits nurture, in that nurture can never go beyond the potential that nature provides for nurture. One example would be the experiment performed by a psychologist, John Money. He attempted to turn a boy into a girl by treating the person like a girl. Unfortunately, the experiment failed because “no matter how much Joan's parents tried, she simply refused to be a girl. She rebelled at wearing dresses and preferred her brother's toys over her own dolls.” (2) as when Joan was born, she was originally a boy. She had the Y chromosome in her body. “An individual's identification as male or female is formed before birth and is immune to both psychology and surgery” (2) In addition, there are some reasons for an individual to be convinced that genetics play a large part in a person’s intelligence. When considering the biology of heredity, genes provide humans with their own physical equipment, which is in essence, their basis. Genes and chromosomes are passed on from each generation to the next. Therefore, without heredity, humans would have nothing to hand down biologically to their descendants.

Our genes are different in everyone, and the environment in which we live effectively tests the genes. People with effective genes will be successful and create more people with those traits. These scenarios are vaguely and incompletely recognized by the inner eye. Therefore, if we are in a crowded setting, we are genetically disposed to become agitated. However, since we have never experienced such, we will not behave such. . If we naturally are hyperactive, and are subjected to situations that illicit hyperactivity we will of course become hyperactive. However, others who do not display this characteristic trait, may not be influenced so when given the same situations.

In conclusion, when we are born, we are genetically pre-programmed, and since our experiences are constantly changing, we learn from them throughout life – but will still behave in a way that is inherently genetically based. Consequently I believe that people are products of nature once they born.