Free Will and a Christmas Carol

Free will is a major theme in philosophy that goes all the way back, and it takes different forms. How can we be responsible to god when he made us the way we are? So there's a kind of traditional puzzle there,. But even if you remove god from the picture, there's still this worryand It sort of relates to this scrooge and a christmas carol. Our ethical trajectory ... is kind of determined and shaped by factors we never even had control over. That sort of scrooge theme.