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Originally Posted by Xero_Aurion
I said this before in one of my previous comments, I figured it deserves a quoting moment
"To live, yet experience. To learn, yet perceive. To question, yet to live free in your mind...our choices practically define us in a way..."
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Although it's true we all have a choice, most of the time though our choices are constrained by our environment, abilities, social status and laws that govern our nations.
There are a lot of people that have lived that thought they were doing things because they felt they had a choice, a choice that would lead to a better society.
Such people are Martin Luther King jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, JFK and Salvador Allende.
These people, and many like them, felt that there was a choice that needed to be made, but unfortunately they failed to realize that not all groups within a society, the world, want people to have the freedom to choose.
And as you see by the high level of authority some of these individuals had, it doesn't matter how powerful or great a leader you are. You step on the wrong toes and your a dead man.
Death is but one way that society restricts people's choices. Another is socio-economic status, which translates to "he with the most money wins".
Another is skin color. Yet another is sex. Still another is age. And then we can get into other areas as well, such as sexuality, beauty, intelligence, type of job one holds, weight, hair color, the type of music one listens to and so on and so forth.
Yes it's true that we have a choice, but with so many doors closed to individuals its no wonder there are more poor, uneducated, starving people in the world then there are affluent and educated.
The idea of choice goes hand and hand with the idea of individualism - both are a myth. Anyone who thinks other wise is just a fool.