I agree with the contention that absence of choice is a rare circumstance, firstly because the author's attitude accords with common sense and our everyday life's experience. In addition, the opposition advocate--that we do not have free choices--offer to destroy the moral responsibility which is important to the survival of any democratic society.
People make choices and programming everyday. Maybe the choices are large things such as the development of a big enterprise, a layout of a metropolitan or the decision of a big surgery; possibly the decisions are small things, such as choose traffic vehicles and clothing patterns. It is very harmful to say that there are no choice for a normal people; even a psychopath
can also decide the time that he/she go to the toilet or do exercise. Perhaps only the dead do not need to make a choice?
People always say that life's circumstances leave them with "no choice". One might feel that he must go to university and get a job after that; others assert that people must marry someone when he/she is a adult,little people elect to rob of banks because they need more money. The fundamental problem with these sorts of claims is that their finish these things after they make a choice, that is, people want to lived comfortable without destroy laws so they go to university and get a job, someone do not want to feel lonely so they choose to get married, few people want spend one day to earn enough money which could be used one years so they get the job to be a robber. If they abandon the choices they make before, they will feel that life's circumstances leave them without "no choice" even it might carry unpleasant consequences.
There are also a few things that we can not chose. Such as where and when we born, our gender, our parents but these phenomena can not undermine the opinion that the author have be suggested.
In sum, although we all have experience conditions of having no choice, the statement that absence of choice is a rare circumstance is fundamentally right. Free mind is an basement of our being as humans and that humans are responsible for their own choices and actions.