Gabriela and I spoke about Jeffrey Dahmer today. This notorious serial killer had an unhappy childhood, but not everybody who has experiences similar to his grows up to be a murderer.
This leads us to the old debate: nature versus nurture. Did he became a psychopath because of the experiences he lived as a kid or was he born bad? What do you think?
I think it’s probably a mix of both nature and nurture. He may have been born with certain traits, but his childhood experiences clearly played an important role in shaping who he became. Experiences, especially at a young age, can strongly influence a person’s behaviour.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you say, Elisa. A small correction: I'd say mixture.
DeleteSo, if I understood you correctly, Carlos, you think nature is more important than nature. You think Dahmer was born evil.
ReplyDeleteOf course his childhood didn't help.
Remember to write chemical depression.
So, do you agree with the explanation below?:
Nature vs. Nurture is the long-standing debate about whether human traits, behaviors, and development are primarily shaped by genetics and inherited biological factors (nature) or by environmental influences, upbringing, and life experiences (nurture); however, the modern consensus acknowledges that it's a complex interaction between both, not an either/or situation, with genes providing predispositions and the environment influencing how they're expressed (epigenetics).