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136."The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."
Nowadays, people often complain that their circumstances and surrounding events provide them with little choice which renders them harder to survive. However, in my point of view, the absence of choice is a circumstance that is very rare.
Our life experience is that we make choices and decisions every day. Common sense tell me that people have free will which is different from person to person, and therefore the diverse wills lead to diverse choices. In our personal lives, people choose their life styles, values, and environments. People of different personality prefers to different life styles. Solitary people prefer to a kind of tranquil life, social people prefer to an active life. In order to satisfy different people with different personality, the public provide us with different abiding places. The pre-requisition of winning a business is to investigate the people’s need and finally satisfy them. The society also provides nearly full-scale choices on some trivial commodities. When you walk into a supermarket, you are faced with hundreds of kinds of commodities in one class, such as beverage or chocolate. The competing businesses and the companies provide people a full-scale choice for the sake of running and prosperity. In academic fields, people can choose their interests diversely. It should be point out that nearly all kind of academic researches and studies are provided by our society or our education system. For instance, the podiatry, taxonomy, and orthodontics are so peculiar disciplines that many people had not heard of. However, still some people choose these disciplines as their professional choice. One exception which is less in choice must be listed out is the people in prison or people with mental or physical deficiency.
The phenomenon of “no choice” is not due to the scarce alternatives but the punctilio of the thinking. One may feel to be trapped in job, nevertheless, the reality provide us numerous choices, it is just because they deem some choices are not attractive or even not feasible. A graduated student may be indecisive and vacillate in the employment market even if there are many vacancies, the only reason for this is that he or she excludes many choices for the sake of hunting a decent pay. A guest in a supermarket also indecisive for choosing a suit since he or she wants to pick out one low in price but high in quality. This phenomenon should be defined as “absence of decision” but not “absence of choice”. In an era of pragmatism, people should be agile but not hasty in choosing their careers and others.
Only if the society gives enough respect to every one’s reasonable and choice, the society is truly democratic. The society, especially the government should not secretly manipulate and prohibit any choice for their vested interests. Besides, the claim that we do not have free choice-serves seems to undermine the notions of moral accountability and human equality, which is the prerequisite of the survival of any democratic society. The society should provide enough choices and regard the public choices seriously. In this way, we can triumphantly march on the road of democracy.
In the final analysis, despite the fact that we all experience occasional feelings of being trapped and having no choice, the statement of the speaker is fundamentally correct. I trust my conclusion that free will is an essential part of human beings, and, human are responsible for their choices.
给连接回拍,谢谢
[ 本帖最后由 Lyon_Tony 于 2007-6-25 16:02 编辑 ] |
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