"What Makes Us Moral"

While I was reading the first part the really showed me the connection between nature vs. nurture in this article was in the fifth paragraph where they used an example of a preschooler. The child knew not to eat in class because it was a rule set by the teacher which is an example of nurture because it tells how the child would eat in class if the teacher said it was okay, but the child is taught it is against the rules. The same paragraph it is talked about if the teacher says it is okay to push another student off a chair the child will respond “No, the teacher shouldn’t say that,” says psychologist Michael Schulman. This could be an example of nature because it is being presented as the child’s instinct to hesitate to push another child off a chair, but also it could just be the way the child is brought up on how they grasp what is right or wrong.
By reading this article my opinion only grew stronger on how it all depends and differs for each individual. Although, I am leaning a little more towards nurture after reading both the summer assignments and this article because I have seen in each of the readings that a lot of the behaviors whether good or evil is caused mostly by society. The only examples I think are nature can in one way or another relate back to nurture. In my mind I do believe everyone can be influenced one way or another, but for most once they are taught one way it is near impossible for them to switch making it seem as though the first way of behavior they were taught is their nature to others around them.