Limerick on Predestination
I have seen several versions of the first limerick here, attributed to Maurice E. Hare, 1905. I am uncertain of the source of the reply, but I like it. To me, it addresses the topics of free will, determinism, and biological constraints on development.
There was a young man who said "Damn!"Young man you should stay your complaint,
For the grooves that you call a constraint
Are there to contrive
That you learn to survive;
Trams arrive, buses may or they mayn't."
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