You Have No Choice

Do you believe in the survival of the fittest and genetic determinism? Are we really all products of our genes, believing and acting as we do just because our genes are sequenced a certain way? If that is so, then we have no choice in the matter. We do not make conscious decisions but only act in ways determined by our genetic programming. Perhaps you have seen articles and programs about how smoking or alcoholism is genetic. Now, however, there are more extreme writings that claim sexual preference, altruism, and even infidelity are genetic. This slippery slope leads our generation to believe that anything we do is a forced action from our genes. In this episode we define genetic determinism and look at the notion that genes control everything.