Response: Free Will

In response to Justine Cozza's post "Response to Intro and Ch.1 of the Ten Theories of Human Nature"
 (January 22, 2012):
I would agree that conscious thought does determine, through the choices it results in us making, the paths of our lives.  However, I do not necessarily agree that this negates the concept of destiny/fate (or, in a more secular sense, pre-determined sequences of events).  Could one not argue that, either by divine engineering or by genetic predisposition, one's choices are already made?  By this I mean that each person, according to their nature, will under a certain set of circumstances make one, and only one, choice.  This is in opposition to the concept of free will; however, in practical terms it makes no difference.  As no one knows for certain what choice they are predisposed to make, they have to make the choice as if by their own free will.  In the end, there is only one of the available choices that they are capable of making, but prior to making said choice they do not know which it is.