The debate about Nature versus Nurture is a perfect example of a logical fallacy known as a false dichotomy. The human character is made up of both hormones (Nature) and history (Nurture).
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Your hormone levels and availability of receptors are inherited and regulated based on the programming of your genetics. Your history includes what you learn from your parents, school, church, your friends and the mass media.
Hormones and history play a role in lifestyle choices and affiliation. For instance, you are either generally happy or not. You may not be a happy person generally so you develop habits that contribute to the release of extra dopamine, such as certain drugs, alcohol, gambling, sky-diving, trolling on the Internet or other forms of risk-taking, running or other forms of intense exercise.
Masters and Johnson discovered that human sexuality is on a spectrum between homosexuality and heterosexuality, instead of the long-held either-or thinking. It's not a lifestyle choice, it's a genetic trait. People cannot be recruited into or out of homosexuality who are not already predisposed.
When you hate someone, a group or a situation, you are falsely attributing your hormone imbalance as being caused by that external source. Hate is a symptom of chronic personal frustration which indicates a hormone imbalance.
Your economic circumstances may contribute to your personal frustration and you may deal with your feelings through the aforementioned habits, or you can remember that you own your feelings.
