DEUT1617 Animals are programmed from birth, and thus, their choices are limited. Animals are not capable of moral choices, and thus receive no reward for "doing the right thing" or punishment for acting immorally. Every human being faces many moral choices each day. Even though the Torah "commands" man to commit many moral acts or commandments, at the very end of the Torah, the Torah itself proclaims that man retains the right to reject God and these Commandments, and choose between right and wrong [Deuteronomy 30:15-19]. Of course, he will be rewarded or punished accordingly. This free choice and free will is described by Maimonides in detail (Maimonides, Hilchot Teshuva 5:1). It matters not with what tendencies and personality traits a human is born. He retains the ability to go on a moral or an immoral path, regardless of his environment or past history.