Only in the human form is there is a very, very small presence of "free will or the ability to choose" what is right and what is wrong making one responsible for their actions.

Free will technically exists fully ONLY in the Spiritual World

This is because once the jiva enters the material world,  immediatly they are under the law of Karma (reactions to our own good and bad choices)

And further more what little choices we have is limited to the material bodily vessel the jiva is in.

There are 8, 400,000 species of life (bodily forms) and in the material world in the lower species the living entity acts according to instinct and do not create karma only burn it off.

Karma is only created in the "human form" with pious and impious actions.

Only in the human form is there is a very, very small presence of "free will or the ability to choose" what is right and what is wrong making one responsible for their actions.

But even that so called free will is not really free will as past good or bad karma "forces" one to act one way or another.

All lower species are controlled by instinct and NOT karma, no karma is created in the lower species, only in the human form is karma created