No, but you also don't get to make a conscious decision about your personality or behavior, at least not as much as many people think. Your genes are actually the primary factor in your predisposition, not your upbringing or culture. Now, it's not completely deterministic of course, but you can make pretty good assumptions based on race and ethnicity alone.
Or you know, what genes you have, like having a duplicated MAOA gene. Genes are not positively deterministic, in that they can't tell you what you will be, but are negatively deterministic in that they can tell you what you won't be. They set the baseline, and your environment just moves the needle a bit.
No, but you also don't get to make a conscious decision about your personality or behavior, at least not as much as many people think. Your genes are actually the primary factor in your predisposition, not your upbringing or culture. Now, it's not completely deterministic of course, but you can make pretty good assumptions based on race and ethnicity alone.
It would be a great honor to have you measure the bumps on my skull.
Or you know, what genes you have, like having a duplicated MAOA gene. Genes are not positively deterministic, in that they can't tell you what you will be, but are negatively deterministic in that they can tell you what you won't be. They set the baseline, and your environment just moves the needle a bit.
Glad you’re not taking my teasing too seriously.
I think how and where you’re raised has the biggest effect on people. We’re all born ignorant, for example.