You're making the mistake of projecting the deterministic nature of "machine level" causality onto the ability of the scripting language that is human agency to interact with the world in ways that can be characterized as "good" or "bad." Which isn't to say that compassion for the sinner and acknowledgement of how in thrall we all are to circumstance shouldn't be encouraged. Just, high-level, there is choice, if only because the deterministic switches are black boxed.
