Everything a Person Does Is Influenced By Society

--------------------Rebuttals---------------------- "how can a specific action be influenced bysocieties, if humans on the total opposite side of the world learned theiractions naturally, thus conforming into a society?" Definition of Society: I said in R2 that society is a group of people, of varying size and structure. Natural Actions - Still Influenced: I said that "all actions are influenced by society" besides automatic brain functions and primitive reflexes. Society is a term that can be broadly applied. Society can mean humanityitself. Or, society can mean mycommunity that only consists of a few thousand people. Usually society is applied to areas withsimilar cultural-social distinctions. An action may be learned naturally, but it is still influenced by society. Your example of an actionthat is learned naturally was speaking. However, your society influences what language you will speak, how you say it (accent or lack of), and how you apply it (social norms). Conformity Rebuttals: "Is this a sufficient enough argument to provethat ALL human actions are performed as a direct results of a society?" So you agree that humans are susceptible to the influence of society. However, that doesn't mean that ALL human actions are performed as a direct result of society, although it strongly leans that way. For example, society influences me to go to school tomorrow strongly, but this doesn't mean I will go. However, society is strongly influencing me to go nonetheless. "When we rebelled against the british and caused the revolutionary war, we broke off the chain of influence of society, and conformed a new society." The colonists were their own society away from the British. Evenso, when we fought the British, our motives were influenced by society because society had hurt us(taxation without representation). Psychology: About the DDO memebers such as Inferno, their motives are still influenced by society (in this case,DDO). They are influenced by society who comments on their posts, and like the attention. Society influences them to stay on DDO because of the fun experience and their ability to communicate their unpopularideas. I already proved how other actions were influenced by society. Language: If humans learn languagenaturally, that doesn't mean it IS NOT influenced by society. The action of speaking a language is still influenced by society. "if a human were to grow up independent of a society, that they would more than likelylearn a language of their own." Humans may have orignial ideas, but through our experiences, our neurons watch what others are doing,and mime it themselves. This is one common way how we learn. Other neurons, called mirror neurons, are involved in many actions as well as learning. They set up connections when an experience has a certain reflection from themselves. If I see a guy yawn, my mirror neurons take in the sensoryinformation, and an impulse is expressed by these neurons, and my mind mimics and/or remembers this impulse, and I am likely to yawn as well. Another example is when a baby smiles, the mother smiles too. More important yet, researchers think that mirror neurons are a key way on how humans learn speech,signaling meaning to others and developing primal feelings of empathy. Through empathy, we can understand each other, another connection with actions and society. Neuroscientist Christian Keysers, with other colleagues of his who conducted the glove-brushing study, said: "When you watch a movie, you don't think to yourself, now the hero is smiling, so he must be happy. Through the mirror [neuron] system, you just know it." Thus, what we see of others in our society, regardless of size, we understand others through empathy. We learn because of other humans with our mirror neurons and other neurological systems through experience, and by alesser extent our automatic brain functions, which are still influenced by society. Time: YourBrain. Magazine, January 2012. "The Gift of Mimicry," by J. MadelelneNash. We Influence Society: We do influence society. However, then society is changed, and still affects us in other ways. If we didinfluence society (example: Amend Constitution to add Balanced Budget Amendment), society influenced us in the first place to make us want to influence society. In the example I put, we were influenced by society (high deficits), and thus we responded. So the interaction between society and individual goes both ways. I upheld the resolution. The Scientific Approach: You said that humans have basic instincts that are in no way influenced by society. This is not really true. It is true that we need to do those actions such as feeding to survive, but society still has a verystrong influence on our basic instincts. You said feeding: With feeding, society makes a price on goods. Therefore, we decide while being strongly influenced by society's price on goods. If the good has been determined healthy by society, we are more likelyto eat it too. See, even passively, society has an influence on what we do. With bowel movements, the food determines on what is used for nutrientsand what for waste. (The food itself is influenced by society as I said). For breathing, society has influenced this instict as well. Through the chemicals ourindustries and societies have emitted into the atmosphere, the chemical composition of the air has been altered. So, it is true that society has influenced our breathing. Consensus: Society influences our basic instincs as wellas all our actions. "My opponent agrees with me on severalpoints that Not every single action is influenced by society." I said the only exceptions were automatic brain functions and primitive reflexes (example: hypnic jerk in sleep right before Stage 2 sleep). I said that influence means tohave the capacity to have an effect on behavior, character, development, etc. However, you could argue that the genes that were passed on to us were affected by society on how our parents were affected by society. So really, I win here. Conclusion: 1) We learn from society and our interactions with it. 2) Our most basic instincts are still passively influenced by society. 3) Society influences our behavior when we interact with it because of psychological reasons. 4) Society influences all of our actions, and we affect society itself with our actions. It goes both ways. 5) My opponent hasn't named an example of an action that is isolated from the influence of society. Thanks for a great debate!