Comment on Why is "I was born this way" and other "genetic predisposition" defenses almost common place? I get the physical stuff like loss of limbs but not the I was born to hate, or rape, and so forth?

• Epp@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Possibly. If the genes that cause you to get satisfaction from taking care of others, that would cause you to gravitate towards nursing. If your instinctual reaction to deformity, illness or bodily fluids outweighs that disposition, then you’d be less likely to be a nurse.

  Your reactions to sights, sounds, smells, etc are not choices, right? You can be self aware and modulate your response, but the underlying reaction is determined everyday by your biological coding. Hence your genetics can lead you towards or push you away from careers based on your individual disposition as determined by your genetics.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m loving all this, but let’s not forget nurture! What we learn through our experiences can create or crush that same desire to help people that leads to nursing.

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    • Epp@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But of course, but your reaction to your environment is itself a product of your genetics. So it is an inseparable combination. You can’t disregard the nurturing, and it has an effect, but it is modulated by your biology, determining your reaction, response, and how it changes you going forward, so inescapably the underlying driver is genetics.

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