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I also think it's a balance of nature and nurture. Nature makes the experience (nurture) more susceptible to misanthropy. Being a misanthrope myself, I think myself to be a subject of my environment, also an effect of the Lake Wobegon bias. The thing is, if you are effected by nurture, you are concious of it, so most attrinute this to nurture.