If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.