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The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare.
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In the current society, people should behave according to lots of social norms, which make sure that the society is in a ordered situation. At first glance, these norms reduce our choices and limit our behaviors very much. However, basing on the even more proper and perfect regulars and norms, we could live in a really democratic society and choice freely. In my opinion, the absence of choice is indeed rare.
First of all, each of us selects and chooses the alternatives everyday. That is to say most of things could be choose or drop. We could choose eat rice or noodle, go to work or not, and so forth. A social person will face many choices and make decisions again and again. Maybe it is education from school, family, media etc. that make us do many things regularly and ignore that we are making a choice. For example, most of pupils go to school everyday just because they are telling to make the choice, and accept it. Actually, they do make choices but may not be aware of it.
Secondly, many of the circumstances that absence of choice sometimes owe to people's different norms of value judgment. People think other choices besides what they choose are not proper and reasonable to choose, and consider it is no other choices. For instance, when someone fined a job and only find that job, he may think this is the one and only choice. In fact, he first could choose drop it, or go on to try again. Why he thought that it is absence of choice is that he has such fundamental norms that he must go to work and he is not willing to look for any others maybe because of the increasing cost, time, and energy devoted to do it. And he feels it is not reasonable. In another word, no choice is based on personal value judgment.
In addition, there are indeed some no alternative situations in our lives, such as birth, grown up, death and illness, which are determined by natural force, and the human being could not so far make any choices on them. However, these situations are not the majority of people's choices from daily lives. So what we usually talk about the circumstances of choice and absence of choice more emphasizes on people's daily lives in society.
To sum up, we can conclude that people could make choices on many things except those come from natural force. Although there are many moral norms, legal acts and individual value judgment to limit the range of choices, we could not deny that most of things originally could be choose to be done or not. |
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