Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160226002630/@comment-26018514-20161031044830

KNN005 wrote:

...I do think of myself as an adult at 31. But I always was taught by my parents to give a shit about people. They told me being selfish helps no one. Because you know when the time comes and you want help you're not gonna want others that could save you to be selfish. So if doing the right thing wasn't reason enough, do it because you know you'd want someone to do it for you....

And right there is your own answer, you were TRAINED in morality, Emerald on the other hand, was forced to consider herself an adult before she could make these kinds of decisions, and immoral actions were rewarded far more often than moral ones, People gave her items willingly through use of her deceptions, with a smile.

Nature vs. Nurture is a debate only insofar as which one affects us more and which one works in a psychological vacuum(which doesn't really work regardless)... she has had the Nurture side of it forced down her throat... and her semblance tends to indicate nature wasn't too far off either.