This Week: We Will All End Up Like Our Parents

Nature? Nurture? Genetic determinism? Stop by PK Hall on Thursday to hash it all out. Following the debate, we will have orations, creative writings, and a few impromptu debates.

From the presenter, Brother Jeffery Libby:

“This Thursday I am tasked with the presentation of the resolution BIHR: We will all end up like our parents. 

“By “we” I am referring primarily to the generation that would presently be in college. This is not to say that the premise of becoming like our parents is a revolutionary or unprecedented fate but rather that the focus will be on people who are in merely early adulthood and are theoretically not parents already. 

“By the terms “will all end up” I mean that the circumstances of our origin dictate a certain inevitable outcome which is to assume in biological likeness and demeanor the very characteristics that are unique to our parentage, to which I am referring, “like our parents”. 

“It will be framed so the affirmative is arguing in favor of the influence of nature i.e. genealogical evidences but also with the exploration of the nurture angle and how a family may condition a child to certain behaviors persisting into adulthood. To counter, I anticipate the negation will argue against the influence of both nature and nurture in the cultivation of similarity with our parents, arguing instead for the merits of free will and individual choice and the power of nurture to overcome hereditary traits.
I intend for this debate to be provocative.

“Feel free to suggest amendments to my definitions, as well as bring your parents in person on Thursday as corporeal proof.”