Genetically inherited or Innate? Genetically inherited or environmentally learned? This question has been asked dating back to the eighteenth century. Is human aggression genetically linked or is it the environment that determines our aggressive nature. Both ideas will be conversed in the following essay. Violence in today's culture can be learned in many diverse ways ranging from Television shows to psychological reasons, but on the other hand humans can as well be born violent from …
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…and he gives the example of WWI. Soldiers were ordered to wipe out a village and many of the soldiers disagreed but they did it anyways because it was an order. With strong evidence like this how can one think otherwise? In a recent poll 75% of the population believed violence is learned and not innate (TIME poll). Experiments proving that violence is innate have been negative and this further proves that violence is not innate.