Is Bigotry Taught?

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Seil

I guess this goes hand in hand with the debate as to whether or not people are born evil, or are made evil through situations and experiences in their life - and in that I'm still of the belief that ignorance and hatred is something you learn. Thinking of the amount of discrimination present in society fifty years ago to the discrimination now, I genuinely believe that to be because it wasn't because people we born to hate, it's that we were taught to by people who already weren't very nice folks.

So there's one side of an argument - anyone of a different opinion?[/color]

"Evil" being a questionable term in its own right, for the sake of this discussion, I would say the follows:

-A very, very small minority of people are born "evil."
-The rest of the "evil" people or perhaps more correctly, "evil" behaviours, are taught. Directly, or indirectly.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Originally Posted by Azisien

-A very, very small minority of people are born "evil."
-The rest of the "evil" people or perhaps more correctly, "evil" behaviours, are taught. Directly, or indirectly.

Also, the moral standards defining what's considered to be evil vary from culture to culture, from region to region, from town to town, from family to family and from person to person.

I'm sure you all know this already, but someone better say it.



Furthermore, I think people are shaped by all their experiences, which means they are taught to be what they are by whatever the hell they go through.
My humble opinion, but I think that's true.