TABULA RASA
Tabula Rasa is latin for "blank slate". I agree that people do start from a blank slate when they are born, but as they as raised by their parents, they are going to be shaped to how they are living and how their surroundings will effect them. I think that people are more raise by nurture than by nature. Your hardwired characteristics will definitely affect you and how you live, but as your life goes on, you will be ultimately shaped by who and what you are surrounding yourself with. Overall, I believe that people do start with a blank slate, but the things that they naturally inherit will never go away, while the things that will shape you throughout your life will be causes from your situation and circumstances. A child will definitely be affected by not having a mother figure in my opinion. I believe that having a motherly figure to help you out is what can share that good opposite point of view that is necessary to be socially and culturally up to date. It definitely starts as the parents job to nurture the child, but after they start to grow and become more individual, the society will ultimately shape who they are as a person, so I would say it is a combination of both. I think parents should love their children unconditionally, but it can be hard when they go directly against your orders or do something that you don't agree with, but I think they should look past that disagreement and still love them anyway. Christ tells us in John, to love others just as He has loved us, and so I believe that loving someone doesn't mean you agree with what they believe.
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