nature vs. nurture (if the way some one is the way they are because of how they are brought up or by genes)?

Question

I am doing a debate on nature vs. nurture. I am on the nature side. Can anyone think of a very hard question to ask the nurture side?

Answer 1

How do you explain people growing up in a good home, with caring parents, a good education, and good economic status becoming something like a murderer? Couldn't it be something deeper, a genetic code, that drives someone to kill?

Answer 2

OMG. You're seriously debating an issue that has been settled for decades?
Ask the nuture side if genes are required to make a memory, since if they are not then memories of experiences (nurture) are not founded in nature. If they are, then the argument is pretty much over, isn't it?
Incidentially the ANSWER is that both environmental and genetic effects will change the expression of genes and so the answer is "both".

Answer 3

My daughter has very many traits of her biological father. Her taste in food, early teen weight gain and then losing it for no reason at 15. She is a math whiz and loves to always be around a lot of people. All of these traits are completely different than me. Nature, she was born with her basic personality. I have instilled in her values, work ethic and many other things that nurture provides.

Nature vs. Nurture, they have equal potential to shape a life.

Answer 4

I have an argument against both. You are who you are. I have a friend that was raised by her grandma. Her 2 sisters were also raised by her grandma. She turned out to be a successful self-reliant attorney very successful and may soon be a judge and her sister's were both teenage drug addicted unwed mother's. Their mother was in prison most of their life.