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issue136 我同学看到我心血来潮版本后痛加驳斥之作
issue136 The absence of choices is a circumstance that is very, very rare.
In this increasingly completing contemporary society, people have been complaining for the seeming absence of choices in their daily life. However, the influences of the digital age is performed on the limitation, rather than their absence, of choices; indeed, the absence of choices is a case that is very, very rare.
Concerning the definition of choices, it is unreasonable to confine it to the superficial one as choosing one between the two. In that case, even the actions as deciding which apple to have for breakfast or which pair of shoes to enter your friend’s wedding become a kind of choice. Similarly, the definition as “act according to one’s free will” is a distortion because since the beginning of the human society, the absence of fulfilling one’s “completely” free will has been the base on which a stable and ordered society is built on. As the adage of Rousseau has suggested, the relatively freedom is the guarantee for the democracy, that is , the realization of the freedom of all the citizens in the nation. In consequence, the absence of this kind of choice is more than a method ensuring the stability. It is the demand of the welfare of the human beings. The concept of “choice” , in fact, is the availability of finding an alternative way to survive within the limited social environment.
Admittedly, social environment has set a standard for our life. We cannot decide which background we come from, which challenges we will face in the process of our life or can we eliminate the impress of the existing culture. For those inheriting deadly virus such as HIV, it is unfair since the pre-born conditions deprive them of choices available for any healthy person. Facing the fate, human beings are so powerless.
However, our common sense and the history offer us various examples for the positive side—we humans do have some power to change our life. In the beginning of the century, an African boy caught our sight. Inheriting HIV virus from his mother, his life seems out of choice for the disease deprived him of any opportunity in normal childhood. But this guy found an alternative way making his life meaningful; by means of standing up in front of the mass, he alleged for the equal treatment and strict restraints to drug and sexual relationship. This example of an initiative HIV carrier gives some light to this belief—if the God has closed the door cruelly, there must be an alternative window available.
Even for ordinary persons, the existence of choices is quite common. Someone may argue that their background or the environment they are fostered in force them to enter certain school, take certain major or enter a work place that is considered suitable to them. Then let us focus our attention on Bill Gates. A son of a middle class family, he gave up the degree in Harvard Uni. And opened his own business, which later became the superstar in the digital age. One could imagine the pressure he got in the beginning of his business, but his adherence paid him the prosperity of Microsoft.
The apparent absence of choices is actually the absence of one’s strong will. While one concedes the limitation of the existence of choices, choices do exist, if only we have not neglected the positive role we have on the destiny.
我的那个在这里:https://bbs.gter.net/bbs/showthre ... D%BC%AB%BA%B1%BC%FB
被告知看到我的文字写的很郁闷人,于是她有感而发,也写了一篇。 |
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