Tгўbula Rasa - Steven Pinker Link

If we are born with "bad" traits, is social progress impossible?

The notion that we have a soul or "will" that makes choices completely independent of biology. The Scientific Rebuttal

If our genes dictate our actions, can we be held responsible for them?

Pinker identifies three primary dogmas that have dominated Western intellectual life for decades:

The belief that humans are naturally selfless and peaceful, and that greed or violence are purely products of corrupting social institutions.

If we aren't born equal, will that justify discrimination?

In his 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature , cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker challenges the widely held belief that the human mind at birth is a "tabula rasa" (blank slate). Pinker argues that this concept, while politically appealing, is scientifically inaccurate and prevents a realistic understanding of the human condition. The Three Myths

The idea that the mind has no innate structure and is molded entirely by culture and experience.