# Do humans have free will?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-humans-have-free-will/791766 "2017-07-21T00:19:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-humans-have-free-will/791766/1 "2017-07-21T00:19:21Z")

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I would argue free will doesn’t exist for a couple reasons.

First of all, if free will exists, why are most criminals men? If human behavior is independent of physiology and environment, you’d expect criminality to be distributed evenly between the sexes. Unless you want to make a sexist argument that only men or only women have free agency.

Secondly, physiology and the environment explain human choice perfectly well. It goes against Occam’s Razor to add a mystical, tertiary “x factor” to explain human behavior.

Recently some scientific evidence has shown that you can judge a person to a large extent by their facial features. For example, people with wider faces have more testosterone and have been shown to be more likely to be violent, dishonest, self-centered and even psychopathic.

> **[How to spot a psychopath? Measure their FACE](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3235247/How-spot-psychopath-Measure-head-Men-wider-faces-likely-psychopathic-traits.html)**
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> A study of students and inmates by Goethe University, Frankfurt found men with a higher facial width-to-height ratio were more likely to exhibit 'self-centred impulsivity' and 'fearless dominance.'

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