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TOPIC: ISSUE136 - "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."
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1 定义,选择是在特定情况下用我们的理性作出的决定,核心是自由意志。在最糟糕的情况下,我们丧失了自由意志,那就是没有选择的情况。
2但是生活在民主的国家里,法律保护我们的自由意志。有了自由意志,我们就是有选择的。
3 现实中我们常说没选择。一是没意识到选择。二是通过权衡排除了其他选择。这些都不是真正没选择的情况。
结论,只要有自由意志,就是有选择的。
We face choices everyday, from the smallest things such as making a choice what time to get up ,what to eat as daily meals to much more important like deciding to a university to attend or a life-long craeer. Although in some worest circumstances----that we loose our free will, hardly can we find alternations. In most circumstance, indeed, the absence of choice is very very rare.
First of all, a choice is a desicion which made depends on our knowledge and experience in a certain circumstance. From this defination, the most important thing to decide whether we have a choice is the free will. If we have the free will, then we have a choice, otherwise, we have not. Although,in some worest circumstances,we have no choice because we loose the free will.For example in German which controled by Hiter, or USSR dominated by Stalin. The similarity of the two is they all have harsh measures to control one’s will and we lost our own thought as a human. This circumstance also happened in the north korea today. Cult of personailty, severe laws to ban the freedom of speach and any froms of it, including literature, arts and singsing, and so forth. Anyway, in these worest circumastances, no one can hold a free will and then, they do not have a choice.
However, most of us live in domestic countries, which have laws to protect the basic right of every individual, especially the free will. The most telling example is the First Amendment of the American consitituation, which clamor for the freedom of speach and press to protect the free will of every one. Therefore, in today's world, with the free will, I agree that the absence of choice is a circumstance that is very,very rare.
We heard people complain about he or she have no choice but to do something in our daily life.In fact , it is one who unaweare of the choice rather than no choice. For example in the romatic movies, the woman can not marry the man for the against of her family, it seems that she has no choice but to leave the loved one. Actually, when we finished the movie, we always have a happy ending as the two young man get married and have a wonderful future. So, we can see it is always some choices to keep the relationship with the family as well as to marry the loved one, but at a certain circumstance, the woman in movie do not awear of the choices. The same thing also happened in our everyday life as we regard as no choice but miss the alternations.
Moreover, other situation is that when we say we have only one way but no other choice, it is a result after weighing the befefit and lost and then comes to a only solution. Actually, it is a decision that we give up other choices but leave off the most efective one.When I was just finished my high school and to choose a major in university, once I said I have no choice but to study law, which requested by my father. In fact, it is not the only road I can go, I can choose to against my father and major in history. But finally I made the desicion to study law, it is a well-considered desicion about my father's demand as well as the real advantages after I choose a law major. And I think the benefit far more ourweigh to study history. In this situation, I have a free will, and I made up the decision by myself as to follow my father's demand. it is my choice, not the absence of choice.
To sum up, unless in a worest circumstance in which one was forced to loose his or her free will, ,we always have choices in today's society. We make decisions by our free will as well as consider the advantages and disadvantages of any choices to finally choose a way. As long as one have free will, the circumstance of absence of choice is never happen. |
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