Christopher Reilly thought he had a choice. He didn’t choose his genes or the biochemistry of his brain, or his parents or upbringing, or the educational opportunities that were available to him, or the social deprivation and levels of unemployment that affected where he lived, or the influence mass media and his peers had on him, but he thought he chose to break into a house to find the keys for the car he wanted to steal. And the court agreed with him when in December 2020 it convicted him of burglary. He was held personally responsible for that choice without any recognition of how predetermined that choice might have been for him.