Just a tiny bit from my book today…

A more controversial idea, perhaps, is that free will does not exist and that our personalities and actions are largely shaped by our genes and are ‘fixed’ by our ancestry. If proven, this would be an explosive idea because individuals could claim that nothing was ever their fault. Society could also look inside a young person and forecast with some degree of certainty how that person’s life will pan out in the future. In other words, we would, like the Department of Future Crimes, know what people would do before they did it.