is there any space between a "genetic predisposition" claim and a "human nature" claim?
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aelkus and
Absolutely! I totally believe certain patterns of behavior and learning are heritable and stamped on our ape brains from a million years of shambling around in the desert. I’m immensely skeptical of the conclusions people draw from that though.
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Replying to @DavidPorkstar @Aelkus and
well hell to the yeah on that, lol. i probably don't disagree with you on anything substantive then the progressive reaction to conservative/reactionary deployment of human nature claims has gotten to be reflexively attacking any predisposition talk, though. seems bad
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aelkus and
I think this is more of a popular discourse thing than something that’s really conquered the academy in the way, say, Pinker claims in the Blank Slate. Which isn’t to say that it isn’t real, but I don’t too many child development experts now claim NOTHING is heritable.
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Replying to @DavidPorkstar @chaosprime and
If you’re wearied by ppl dismissing genetics out of hand, I’m weary of seeing those deployed to claim that we are encoded with a combo of Thomistic doctrine, 18thc property rights, 19thc gender norms, and pseudodarwinistic sociobiology
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Replying to @DavidPorkstar @Aelkus and
lol, completely fair. i wind up pissing and moaning more about progressives because i find that noise easy to tune out tbh
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Replying to @Aelkus @chaosprime and
Well, also the funniest curveball is that nature is not immutable (it never was - but is now more mutable than ever before)
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yup! almost like "nature vs. nurture" is a false dichotomy because it's the same fucking process playing out in media of differing density
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