Andrew4Handel

I would rather define unethical work. Work that makes other people waste their money, work that damages the environment. Work that exploits the enviro...

I actually find washing up therapeutic. I think work, loosely defined as effort, is enjoyable if you like what you are doing or find it therapeutic or...

I think that life can be a burden regardless of what is happening and that we cannot justify making someone experience life without consent. I only do...

DNA in the mother and father?

I think that all the matter that makes a human does exist before it turns into a child. the only thing that might not exist prior to conception is con...

I think that just creating a child makes you ultimately responsible for that child. I think there is a lot parents can do before and after a child is ...

I am not sure how beneficial parents can be for their child's future. Maybe if you are a millionaire you can support your child for life taken all fin...

"The exponential fall in genome sequencing costs led to the use of GWAS studies which could simultaneously examine all candidate-genes in larger sampl...

I think when a person is no longer conscious they are absent from us. I feel a lot of important human communication is done through language which giv...

What issue is that supposed to resolve?

No I am a big fan of The Composer G F Handel.

Robert Plomin has come out with a book arguing similar this year, 2018. https://theconversation.com/blueprint-by-robert-plomin-latest-intelligence-gen...

I do not think they are willing to accept God would create homosexuality. If it was proven genetic . I think some gay people including myself here wou...

My experience was completely like this. Completely controlled as a child with no preparation for adulthood. Then turn 17 and expected to fend for myse...

I am not saying that I am saying they are primarily caused by something in the environment and can be avoided by not being exposed to that environment...

It seems to me that humans have a vast repertoire of behaviour and potential. Whereas animals have a limited repertoire of behaviour and potential. So...

Remember what Richard Dawkins said? "Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, commun...

I was saying Angelina would only want to remove her breasts if she thought the cancer was genetic and not otherwise. The overall point is that there a...

I have not put forward this idea. My comment was that genes can fully manifest their attributes in ideal environments. For example if you drop a Lion ...

I don't see how My Joile example supports your point and I definitely do not think it is a tightly woven process. Some cancers are only caused because...

I find this kind of philosophy hard to follow but to use something unrealistic as an example of language use undermines any argument. It is ironic tha...

The problem is that no one can choose to be born and so how do you describe their existence instead other than as an act of force? I think things like...

I don't think it means either of those things. For a start I don't think anyone ever says the sentence " Ralph believes there are spies." That is a ve...

I have not claimed someone non existent is being forced to do anything. However I did give the example of a vase, a vase comes to exist by an act of f...

What matters to me is the potential for harm. A dead person exists but has no potential for harm. I don't t like to do things that have the potential ...

Do you think a person exists when they are recently dead and their body is intact?

By outcomes here I am not referring to hair color or intelligence etc. An outcome can be shaped or influenced by too many factors including chance. I ...

Homosexuality is an interesting example (and sexuality in general) because people want to know what causes it whether it is genetic, occurs in the wom...

But I think in reality some things are genes and "nature" and somethings are nurture/environment in a real sense. Take cancer for example. Angelina Jo...

Maybe I should clarify myself here. By nurture I mean parenting and some social factors. The term nature is problematic in some sense because it does ...

I can think of a potential argument for having a child in the form of religion or supernatural/esoteric beliefs. Someone might believe that after crea...

There are things, probably lots of things, you would not like forced on you as an adult. Now it seems your using the excuse of the child's initial non...

In the nature nurture debate I believe they are referring to human nature not how nature effects humans. It usually refers to innate personal nature/i...

It is an act of force that directly impacts the child and has lifelong consequences not of their choosing. After you have been born you have experienc...

Racism can cause mental health problems. One attempt to tackle racism is to criminalize and prosecute racist actions. This is an attempt to tackle rac...

I have highlighted the circumstances where ascertaining nurture problems is important which is when intervening in problem lives and dysfunction. You ...

Determinism does seem problematic for knowledge. Do I believe 2+2=4 simply because my brain is in a certain state? That seems untrue because I can ref...

The point is that it is one thing to claim something is genetic or nature and another thing to have isolated and treated a cause. Maybe there are stro...

I have never heard of a non medical intervention into someones life or family where genes have been mentioned. You do not have to explicitly say nurtu...

I do not think it is meaningless to look at someones life or circumstance and work out how much is caused by their ingrained personality and how much ...

I think it is far from irrelevant when it comes down to helping people flourish, family interventions psychology, mental health, criminality and so on...

I have noticed that most people who work with children and families and in psychology or social work can see how important nurture is through experien...

A heart exists because of genes however the environment a heart is in determines its health. Intelligence is an abstract trait that manifests itself t...

Making the child exist is an act of force and then its experiences are forced on it (by its nervous system etc). I don't see how you can describe the ...

I think the position that nature dominates is a deterministic perspective. Indeed many thinkers now claim not to believe in free will. So these people...

The way you get to discover potential genetic causes is by trying to give two things an identical environment. However the environment equals nurture....

It is a dichotomy that still exists in discussion and literature.

I am compelled by the seed example because it seems to me that genes definitely require an environment and nurture and these can be very variable. If ...

I am thinking of life outcomes and personality outcomes and not including unavoidable genetic illness. For example you could say someones choice to sm...

I didn't make that claim but I think this is a semantic quibble. Physical Force including biochemical aspects is the only way to create a child. There...