"If people were "hardwired" to lie, wouldn't they be better at it?"

Jack, U.S. presidents and some dictators have been very successful at it. Have you looked at US Congress lately? Doesn't that make you wonder? :)

Lighter, genetic potential doesn't mean that genes determine everything. IE: an alcoholic potential might be genetically transferred but this doesn't mean one with those genes would automatically become alcoholic. It's a genetic potential and not a fixed outcome, here.

There is a lot of misunderstanding about the "hard wired brain" which is yet to be discovered by scientists who are working on it.

One thing that seems to be in our DNA is behavioral adaptability. Which genes win out over centuries may be conditioned by the way our species behaves.

Can the genes of those who use violence and aggression to control and destroy other members of their species hold out over time?   I argue for adaptability and survival, not war and specialization.