TheEternalPessimist said:
Nanomachines son said:
The Banned said:
stetson said:
I have long told my friends that I can peg a liberal by their face with 75% accuracy. I'm convinced that political leanings are largely genetic.
You can generally tell by their looks, but It's not genetic. You can find photos of girls who walked away from their crazy leftist leanings and you'd hardly recognize them. they they go from hags to normal looking/good looking women rapidly
No it is genetic, it's been proven that it is. Physiognomy is actually a real thing.
If it is genetic, then explain why people shift from liberal to conservative or conservative to liberal.
Ultimately, it comes down to world view which is influenced by an external philosophy (like the Bible, Koran, etc), internalized 'feelings', or both.
That is not what identical twin studies prove at all nor adopted sibling studies. Identical twins end up the extemely similar as adults no matter how they were raised. Conversely adopted siblings in the same household are no more similar than two random people off the street.
We know from genetics that facial features do indicate specific kinds of behaviors and that people who look similar actually do behave in similar manners. That is doppelgngers actually do act similarly to each other.
People don't like to think about genetics affecting human behavior this way but that's how it works.