“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”, but most apple seeds don’t grow where they are dropped - they are carried away by birds or rodents and seed elsewhere. Also, most apples aren’t true to seed anyway - plants grown from seed don’t bear the same fruit
Yep, seems to me to hold up in the metaphorical sense as well.
Not arguing against the genetically inherited traits, even beyond the purely aesthetic/structural ones, like inclinations toward certain ways of processing information, nor do I ignore the fact that they’re not 100% heritable. But even as such, nurture (which I view from the belief that the entire village shapes the person) can generate a completely divergent personality, and the breadth of development is directly proportional to the breadth of exposure samples (at least to my mind).
And let’s not neglect the more practical similarities as well! Different types of flora require differently sized “privacy bubbles,” areas of earth reserved exclusively for their individual sustenance, otherwise they’d essentially choke each other out. We can see something very similar in the development of children who are too closely bound to their family through mechanisms of excessive control, their potential ends up being smothered.
Edit: disclaimer, I’m working with 12th grade Biology and a Bachelor’s in Theatre Acting as my sociology background, so I actually expect to have botched something up in what I said. Salt is advised.
Yeah, that was the general point I was trying to gesture to without being too hamfisted about it; people can escape crappy situations and generational trauma with some outside help, either on the small, personal level or the larger structural level