The nature-nurture debate is really about leash tightness

Evidence

In an insightful analysis, Stephen Jay Gould (1987) notes that the major explanatory battle is not between nature and nurture as commonly framed. Rather, it is whether nature operates as a determinist that has culture on a “tight leash,” as Edward Wilson (1998) argues, or as a potentialist that has culture on a “loose leash,” as Gould (1987) contends. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 155

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the real nature-culture debate as tight-leash determinism vs. loose-leash potentialism — a memorable, reusable formulation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 155