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Issue136 The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare.

Could you remember the choice questions we did in our elementary school tests, a question with two or more options which you can choose discretionarily? As gradually grow up, we found that life is like an examinations with ample those choice questions, you often have the opportunity to choose, however, the scope is given in advance.


Microscopically, this is often the case in terms of individual level. When at the tail of our college life, we shall do such a choice question, to continue doing research in university campus, or to hunt a job in community? However, this is not a single choice question but a sequence of choices. Assume chose the former, the road to academic, then you shall need to find a suitable university. Remain in the original school, or apply a better one? If your answer is the latter, then determine which one, Harvard, MIT, Yale, or others? While choosing to hunt a community job, your situation is almost the same, a continuous series of choices. If you don’t resonate with the above description, you will clearly remember the scene of your painful selection process for a satisfying leisure before every annual leaves, to see the desert in Africa, to go shopping in France, or to go home accompanied by your parents. Maybe your idea is already open, and could image more similar scenes in your own life than my shriveled description.

Macroscopically, it is constantly abundant with selections in the national perspective. A case in point is last year’s Sub-prime Crisis caused by the real estate bubble, whose solution process is also like doing a choice question in nature. Specifically, for Obama government the options are: to promulgate several related laws and policies to stimulate the economy, to allocate a large number of money for saving the market, or others. Another proper example here is coping with A H1N1 influenza recently; the corresponding options for the government are isolating the affected populations, vaccinating the non-infected populations, or others. Although the nature of our office’ jobs are similar with our primary school’s choice questions, the former is much more thorny than the latter.

Nevertheless, the choice processes in our life are always bounded, and they already have their own selection scopes as the choice questions in our tests. For example, due to the limit of current science and technology, a doctor can’t choose to let the dying patient renascence, yet a boy can’t choose to be an invisible person like the descriptions in the fiction. Moral and legal constraints also couldn’t be broken when we do our life selections, as abortion is not allowed in some countries, as well as polygamy.

In sum, we could freely do our life choice, while our selection scope is limited by some factors.