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Genetic Predispositions and Overriding Them
You have the ability to counteract—override—your genetically programmed inclinations. You have free will. For example, you can live and work in tall buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows, overriding your genetically inherited fear of heights. You can ride in an elevator despite natural claustrophobia.
The ability to override genetically inherited predispositions invalidates excuses, such as:
- I smashed that other guy’s car with a tire iron in a fit of road rage because, as a human male, I’m naturally aggressive.
- I can’t become a physicist because, as a human female, I’m not supposed to be good at math.
- I keep having affairs because, as a naturally polygynous human male, I just have to sow my wild oats.
- I eat wild oats from the nosebags of other horses because, as a horse instead of a human, I have no evolved ethical sense, only horse sense.