Testimonial

We live in an era where so much of the
world around us has been examined, studied
explored and explained so that existence and
the nature of all things become explicated
leading to great scientific findings making us
so much wiser than we were before. Leading
science to peer more closely now at the free
agency we assume is ours as we set about
our lives making judgements and courses of
action through free will. Only to discover that
brilliant minds now believe there is no free will
that our subconscious reacts instantaneously
when faced with situations requiring decision
making and it is not our considered decisions
that guide us to how we behave but instinct and 
the acquired primal inheritance of our species 
instructing our actions before our brain has the
opportunity to assess and determine. Everyone 
now has a defence; the consequences of their
'choices' are not theirs alone to atone for.
Though they may be the authors of dread carnage
they cannot be held totally responsible for their 
actions for they are but automatons responding 
to inner urges beyond their cognitive control. 
Add to that  their formative environment and
exposures responsible for character development
and the formula is there for monsters among us
to run amok and be forgiven for they know not
what they do in destroying the lives of others.