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Originally Posted by Quasar

There are parents out there that drill so much crap into children's heads for example, how being gay is wrong. I've had that from my own father. I've been brought up by my father to think that being gay is disgusting etc and I actually did believe it at one point. But that didn't stop me being gay nor did it make me straight.

Again, you are trying to nail the nurture argument down to specific elements which is not what it is about at all. As Marsh said, it is far more complex than that, and it is. Socialisation is not a process that can be dissected and analysed, it just ~is~. Your very being is the product of it.

And actually, if anything, I'd argue that usually being told something is bad has the opposite effect, especially on children a bit like 'wet paint - do not touch' signs or kids that have emerged from strictly religious families and go off the rails when they get a bit of freedom. Note, I'm not actually saying what your dad said had any effect because as I said before, it's not specific things like that that the nurture argument is about