[beardyw]

The problem with class is in the newborn baby. Does it have a class? In a room full of newborns can their class be determined? I don't think many people would seriously say so. That means class must be associated with nurture. And that is an inheritance from parents. That puts class in the same bracket as money. It is not inherent in the person.

[linuxontheweb]

It is in the nature of the atomic elements in the class of noble gases to not do much mixing with other elements.

We too are made up of atomic elements. In our case, it would be the precise combinations of these elements that would tend to make us more or less noble. This concept of "precise combinations of elements" also goes under the term, "genetics."

Regardless, the nurture vs. nature debate is indeed quite a thorny one.