Many people often wonder what influences their choices, why they do the things they do, and why the world works the way it does. Many like to argue that people make the choices they do because things are determined by nature and nurture, not other factors. Others like to claim that people have complete control over the choices they make and that there are no compelling factors. In this article I will demonstrate that determinism is false and that people are generally not determined by nature and nurture to perform the bad actions they do. I will identify what determinism is, different forms of determinism, why people find it true, why I find it false, and show different examples of why. I will then discuss free will, different forms of free will, and why people do things out of free will. The definition of determinism “The world is governed by (or is under the influence of) determinism if and only if, given the specified way in which things unfold at a time t, the way in which things unfold thereafter is fixed by natural law. The root of the philosophical idea is that everything can be explained or that everything has a reason for being and being the way it is and nothing else. There are also different types of determinism that people believe in. Soft, hard and casual determinism are the three different types of determinism. Soft determinists believe that free will is compatible with determinism. They believe in determinism, but believe that free will can be present. “According to this soft determinism perspective, a person's behavior may be caused by internal psychological states which, in turn, have causes, but if no immediately pressing external agents affect the behavior, the person is said to has free will” (Ogletree & Oberle, p. .98...... middle of paper ......Matile Ogletree and Crystal D. Oberle, Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 36, (2008), pp 97-111The problem of evil and moral indifference, Tim. Mawson, Religious Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3 (September 1999), pp. 323-345. of Stanford, January 23, 2003. Web. 2013. McKenna, Michael, McKenna, “Compatibilism,” Stanford University, April 26, 2004. Web, November 21, 2013. Moral responsibility, determinism, and the ability to do otherwise, Peter Van Inwagen, The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 4, Harry G. Frankfurt's Contributions to the Theory of Moral Responsibility (1999), pp. 341-350. Np, and Web. November 23, 2013. The Evil Organization, C. Fred Alford, Political Psychology, Vol. 11, no. 1 (March 1990), pp.. 5-27