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罪犯是天生的还是后天的?同性恋是一种偏好还是一种禀性?智商测试是测量天生能力还是后天技能? 过去50年来,凡是论及这种外行问题的正统学术观点都坚定地认为教养胜于天性。纳粹主义甚至怀疑对人类事务提出遗传解释的最温和的尝试。二次大战后的经济增长使大多数西方政府认为,通过教育计划与大量开支相结合的方法,它们能够消除社会问题——事实上也就是说,它们能够控制(甚至改变)人的本性。
Are offenders either natural or acquired? Is homosexuality a preference or a disposition? Is IQ testing a measure of innate or acquired skills? For orthodox academic opinion that deals with such layoffs for the past 50 years, nature. Nazism even doubted the most modest attempt to provide a genetic explanation for human affairs. Economic growth after the Second World War led most Western governments to think that they could eliminate social problems through a combination of educational programs and large expenditures - in effect, that is, they could control (or even change) human nature.