# Any atheists here who believe in free will?

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**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-atheists-here-who-believe-in-free-will/838240 "2019-08-06T14:23:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-atheists-here-who-believe-in-free-will/838240/85 "2019-08-07T15:23:53Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Sociopathology, any pathology really, is a scale with mitigating factors. Before we take to isolating people based on their genetic predispositions, we better be damn sure we know what we’re doing.
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> (We won’t. We almost never do.)

Eh, nothing we do is ever perfect. But if we identify a set of factors that predict sociopathy in 90% of cases, with a false positive error of 10%, it would be irreponsible for us not to do anything with this information.

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