05-03-2006, 10:41 AM | #11 | |
Advocatus Diaboli
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The genetic/learned debate is also irrelavent as I argued many months ago because we as a society haven't really figured out how things that are "learned" effect how people act to any real extent. Some feel that exposure to a certain type of behavior can encourage it, others feel that completely shielding someone from a certain type of behavior can lead to a situation where they make uninformed choices when the behavior inevitably presents itself, or our even drawn to it because of it's "forbidden" nature. When you make the claim that something is "learned" there is the hidden implication that we can somehow change the environment in which a person is raised to avoid this "learning". The problem is, we don't know what the right changes to make are. And we know even less if we encourage an atmosphere of suppression. The recent issues in the catholic church involving pedophelia is just one example of that. One would assume that what these priests "learned" would have had at least some effect on how they acted, but obviously, it did not.
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