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[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everything was there to ''socialize'' me into docility and ''comphet'' and what not. So if all people are basically the same, why didn't it happen?

It happened to me. You can set up the right conditions for any human being to be socialized into docility-- but at some point you've got to roll the dice. Odds are, some people will be greatly affected, and others will be little affected. Epigenetics suggests that biology (via genes) "loads the gun" so to speak, and environmental factors (such as socialization) "pulls the trigger", and thus the outcome, such as docility, happens. Or doesn't happen, if there was no ammo in the gun.

Women have this "pull the trigger" happen WAY more than men-- that is, most women have a significant pressure to be docile, applied to them, at some point in their lives. Many men never have that pressure, so if they were born women they might have been docile but we'll never know.

I think we all agree that the answer here is nature AND nurture, not one or the other. Broadly speaking, the social sciences have been moving towards this perspective for the past few decades or more (as opposed to before). The question is how much does each part contribute. I think you are underestimating nurture. Just my take.