I sit down at the kitchen harvest table, open the laptop. Bringing up the Google search engine, I type in the name Skinner. It doesn’t give me much. An auction and estate sale site, a website for a bar called “Skinners,” a blog spot by some high school kid.
One site that catches my eye is a Wikipedia entry for the now late world famous psychologist BF Skinner. Glancing at the copy posted, I’m carried back to my college undergrad years and some of the psychology courses I took. One of which featured BF Skinner. Glancing at the article, I recall his premise that free will does not exist. That, instead, behavior is a learned trait based on past experience. In other words, if what you do pleases you, chances are, you’ll do it again.
“Like murder,” I whisper. “If you kill and you love it, y
