The mother grew up with botanists, leading to her desire to have a garden in the first place. As well, she grew up in America, in a nuclear family, in a median income threshold, which is why she rewards certain behaviors with delectable treats. Perhaps the mother and the example child fight, because the mothers botanist parents forced her to be an incredible, and she does the same to her daughter, who returns this attitude with a disdain for gardening. Why do you look for a warm toothy smile? Why do you believe murder brings someone "down"? You are programmed to believe so, which is why you've continuously commented on this post with a myriad of arbitrary off point remarks; you had no freewill, you had a neural impulse and after years of living you've simply acted off of it. You're a grand example of how mechanical we are, and how our mind plays tricks on our "consciousness" to make us believe we've made the decision we "want" to make.
In all actuality, sociopaths and psychopaths, anyone with a sadistic twist to them, actually feel a great amount of joy from murdering others, of course modern media isn't going to propogate the real sick bastards in this world, but moreso drone society into believing they won't feel good when they hurt someone else. This is said mainly to highlight your lack of understanding of criminal psychology.
As well, a bunch of experiments have been done and your decisions are actually already decided before you even consciously decide. Something in your brains flips afterwards, making you feel like you made the decision, when in all actuality you're just feeling a little bit of serotonin flood ya brain.

Freewill is the basic action of freely deciding to do something, but if you study neuroscience and psychology in depth, you'll begin to understand that you, and all others on this planet, are barely free of the extreme variables that constantly affect you. And when it comes down to it, the amount the environment affects your decisions usually trumps any serious "forethought" (since thought and its implications on self and perception of this world have been argued since the days we've lived in silly little caves) and makes you nothing more than a body bumbling about a reality of stimulation, blindly searching for what makes you feel good.

Friend, this world is far beyond meritocracy. There are great injustices in and outside of your country; hard work does not always equal success, as lethargy and apathy do not always gain you failure.

@Gwendolyn2018 That last part was talking about my self. Your both right though even if you work hard that does not mean you will be successful. But to me I just think we choose what path we go on. Forget about the hard work to success thing. We choose where we walk and who we hang out with. Life isn't fair. People have limits and they were just born with it. But success isn't exactly the same for everybody. Hell a success for me would be to get out of my state and just go places. I think success for me is happiness. I definitely know the world has huge problems in it. I don't think the US is the center of the universe. But what if you do hard work that makes you happy,does that mean the person has a breath of success. Walking on a path of happiness wouldn't that be success? Even if people have limits?

@Airego There will always be good and bad. Success is just what you choose it to be.

@Gwendolyn2018 I'm just trying to look at the world in a positive view nothing more. Life's hard I guess. But I'll still keep searching for happiness even though I feel like it doesn't exist for me.

@Gwendolyn2018 you are very strong I hope your happiness stays with you. Thank you. You made me realise a few things.

I believe in neither gods, nor free will. Reality, to me, is a regression of similar events towards a state of entropy, with the ability to mutate. The idea of god was just as necessary to the development of mankind as the idea of free will. I moreso just side with the argument, that resides in psychology and neuroscience, stating we make most of our decisions off of unconscious interactions in our brain and body, and in all reality, are moreso programmed to react then to actually have any serious intervention in the whole experience.

@Airego....Interesting thought. Ironically, Christians believe God gave us free will because he wants us to choose to worship him. We're free to make choices, but we have consequences for our choices. I resent it when, say, a group of kids take a flight, the plane crashes and there were survivors.. Invariably, some jackass will tell the survivor, "Wow, God really must have a plan for you!" Plan my ass. The survivors just happened to sit in a seat that didn't get destroyed; or maybe he had better reflexes and ducked. Anyway, how does that make the parents of the deceased feel? If I smoke for 40 yrs, ignoring all the warnings, then develop oat cell lung csncer, its not Gods fault I have cancer; its my own fault. I CHOSE to smoke, I CHOSE to ignore the warnings, so I must face the consequences. But to answer the question, yes, I believe in free will.

I agree, Amy. I think genetics are to blame for our getting diseases.

But for what reason do you make these choices? If you look into neuroscience you'll see a current debate on just how "freely" we make decisions, and the amount of studies reflecting an unconscious algorithm being the main contributor to our actions makes me question whether or not we really are free to decide, or if we, and the universe itself, regress infinitely off a single, though dastardly complex and extremely abstract, equation. Yes I may have some level of personal reflection, where I remember past experiences and attempt to react accordingly so that I don't suffer, but even that is an extremely finite regress, and dependent upon personal experience; which seems rather chaotic and out of ones control.

@Airego I generally don't delve that deeply into things, unless they are of particular interest to me. I think in many ways, we humans make things way more complicated than they really need to be. But that's just me, and everyone else is entitled to do and thank however they please. I prefer to keep things as simple as possible. That's what works for me.

@KKGator When I began studying quantum mechanics I read a quote that changed the way I saw complexity. The most complicated part of quantum mechanics is just how simple it is.