The reading about values made me think a lot about nature versus nurture in regards to human beliefs and values. There is always a debate between these two things about what factors, people, and personalities truly form ones values and beliefs. Some people feel very strongly that values are formed based on nurture. They think that the people who you were raised by and the place that you came from is the source of your beliefs. Others feel that it is about nature, the way that someone is when they are born, their genes. Then there are others who think that it is based on a mix of the two. I feel that both nature and nurture play a strong role in forming values and beliefs. Both are key factors because each is just as apparent in everyday life as the other. “The proposition that individual human beings are programed into their values, either by the influence of genes on personality or by social pressures, can neither be proven nor refuted” (8). The beliefs we have are formed as result of many factors, for example, the people around us, the environment we grow up in, and the genes that we have. When we are young we are most susceptible to have parents or guardians form, or heavily influence, beliefs and values for us. They are the ones that we look up to when we are little because they are such a key factor in our lives. Personally, I feel that my parents had the most influence over my beliefs and values. I think that having strong role models in ones life can lead to them thinking the same way as them. Another source of the formation of ones values can come from the environment they grew up in. Most people are very similar to the people they grew up around and have a lot of the same values as they do. This can happen because many people feel that since all the people around them think one way, they should think that way as well.