In the Age of Genetics, you no longer have to try to cut out smoking or think twice about gobbling that candy bar in your desk drawer. And forget jogging in (1) ______ a cold morning. The die was cast long ago, from the moment when the parental sperm (2) ______ and egg first integrate. The resulting package of chromosomes has programmed every (3) ______ step of your life. So sit back, relax and leave the driving with someone else. But one (4) ______ problem remains: this new world order is at sharp odd with an older theism, that blame (5) ______ can and must be assigned in every human transaction. We have built a vast judicial- industrial complex that offers lawsuits for every need, satisfying various urges like the (6) ______ wish for fairness or revenge, for getting rich quick or simply getting your due. This all- blame all-the-time approach applies to much more than determining culpability would a (7) ______ neighbor trip on your lawn and break an arm. It also says that people are responsible for their own health- and illness. It is your error if you develop cancer or a heart attack (8) ______ because you didn’t eat, think or breathe right. You have allowed the corrosive effect of unresolved anger or stress or poor self-esteem undermine your health. So if you are sick (9) ______ or miserable or both, it’s your own darned fault. No wonder we fled. The transition from the chaotic, barking family feud character of lawsuits to the sleek silence of a future devotes to cloning and splicing genes surely derives from something larger than (10) ______ scientific opportunity or our fascination with "Star Trek".