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[meteorman]

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[meteorman]

Not necessarily; your genes govern how your body works mechanically, but there is some debate once you begin to look at behavior. Are you familiar with the concept of Nature versus Nurture?

[schachmeister]

No. I suppose I could make some rough guesses but...

[Maybe it is better if Ford just explains it all. Just to make sure Armin wouldn't be building on some misconceptions.]

[meteorman]

It's a fairly complicated subject, but opinions tend to fall more or less into two schools of thought: some people believe that behavior and personality are inherent and decided from birth, and some people believe that humans start as a blank slate and are taught behavior by those around them.

I personally fall into the latter camp. I am a twin. My brother and I are perfectly genetically identical, and yet our personalities could not be more different. If a single case can disprove your theory then it isn't incredibly sound.

[Sure, they have similarities -- they were raised in the same time period, by the same parents. But there are fundamental differences in Ford's opinion.]

[schachmeister]

I don't know if I really know enough about the subject to comment on it, but the idea that personality is inherent and inborn seems rather... disconcerting.

[Armin is so not about anything deciding his fate, not even his own genes. But really, would that mean you'd never be able to change? Always stuck to a certain mould, unable to learn from your experiences and grow beyond that?]

It seems to me that... believing people are inherently anything is just an attempt at simplifying the world for one's own comfort.