Posted by SLS on June 10, 2009, at 16:42:16
In reply to Re: What do we owe other people? » SLS, posted by 10derHeart on June 10, 2009, at 14:04:16
> I like your question. It's still making me think. Thanks for posting it.Thanks for reading and responding to it. I am still thinking about it. And although it was a very purposeful choice of words -"owe" -, that is my sticking point, too.
It is ironic that I should have had some more definite ideas that I don't think would have been very popular, I am now searching for answers myself.
> Sometimes I have trouble incorporating certain ideas with my religious beliefs, even though those ideas may seem so "right" they "should" fit. Sometimes I cannot, so I reject some. Sometimes I find, to my surprise, I can, so it seems a gigantic puzzle gets a tiny, tiny but more complete
I don't think the concept of nature versus nurture clashes with the Judaeo-Christian concept of God. One way or another, we are biological beings arrived at through procreation. We are all seeded. From these seeds and their built-in biological potential, individuals are grown within a certain environment. That's the nurture part. Just why are people generally good? (At least, I believe they are). Why do children usually play together harmoniously? Where do they learn how to do that at such a young age? I think this is more a question of biology than nurture. However, nurture comes from many different sources, including cultural.
In the meantime, I am lecturing, as I so often do, and I still can't answer my question.
One of the perplexing questions I have is: where does that leave the sociopath along these spectrums?
- Scott
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