【Big Fish】3月9日issue136-By gaobao

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TOPIC: ISSUE136 - "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."
WORDS: 418
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/3/9 20:34:34

Have you ever heard the voice like 'I have no choice to do this!'? Even it is possible that these words are spoken by yourself. Do we really have no choice? Absolutely not, I strongly agree with the speakers assertion that we are rarely absent in choice.

Admittedly, in some circumstances we have no choice. Firstly, we can not choice our gender. If we are born male, we are male. And if we are born female, we are female. Though some people want to change it, we can not. Secondly, out birth place and family, it is all decided when we born. Such things existent objectively can not choose by us. But we can choose whether love or hate these.

However, the status without choice is rarely, most of the time, we have choices. Primarily, we can choose our life routine. Everyone has a different life is relevant with their different choice in the same things. Attend schools, choose workplace, or whether work hard. It is all the choices we could make. In addition, we can choose the place we live; we can choose when to have a rest. We must have choice in some circumstances, we must choose the one to marry, and we must choose easy but normal life or difficult but splendid life. Life is full of choices, in this or that thing; we choose the way we go.

Further more, sometimes we felt have no choice is all because our will is restrict by our customs, passions, desires etc. For instance, sometimes we may feel angry, which is not a good emotion. Why do not we relieve this by kill the people who irritate us? Because we are controlled by our internal world which told us it is wicked. So we feel no choice but to hatred. Or, in the scenario that someone betrayed us, and says ' It is all because he threatened me, I have no choice.' Truly, we can not blame him, but he did not have any choice, he chooses his own well-being but not our friendship. All of these are not the truly status that we have no choice but we are controlled by our emotions or social concepts. That is the reason sometimes we 'feel' no choice, but there is choice.


All in all, due to the above mentioned words, we have choices all the time except when face the external world; although these choices may be not exist subjectively due to we were fettered by our thoughts.