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Rightful Freedom's avatar

The idea that the individual is created by his environment has been useful to Marxists since forever. It means that the state creates the citizen. And leftists still claim that such environmental determinism is "science" and can't be questioned.

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Fred Singer's avatar

Yes, the left believes that we are blank slates, that given the right environment, anyone can be anything. We are born good. Therefore, if some groups have unequal results, tweak the environment, pass laws to level the playing field. The right, in volume after volume, proves we are born bad, with our own strengths and weaknesses, as a species and as individuals, in other words, genetic determinism. It's a loooong discussion, affecting social policy, for better and for worse.

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