【辉太郎杀G大队】7/23 作业by Aliciasun

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TOPIC: ISSUE136 - "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare."

Our contemporary is totally different with before. With the flexibility of the notion and lifestyles, in many cases, people have the opportunities to make a choice between lots of ways to achieve their goals in their daily life. However, with the suspicious attitude towards this assertion that the absence of choices is a very rare circumstance, I hold the point of view that having choices or not strongly depend on the identities, surroundings and other limitations of a person.

As ordinary people who live in the everyday life, undoubtedly, we continually make choices and decisions just following our willing. Choice can be interpreted as a mental process of thinking involved with the process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them for action. Simply put, choice is to seek the maximum interest. Here the interest is including all the recognized values in our personal evaluating of material side, emotional side, evaluating measures, the life way we want to lead, and so forth. We can choose a major which attracts our interest to learn, we can choose a route for a journey which sounds most exciting, and we can also choose a job which can satisfy ourselves with the balance of psychological joviality and pragmatic need. Basically, as can be seen obviously, these choices are on the premise of ordinary people and ordinary life.

However, people with special identities, positions, or trained with particular responsibities to some extent fail to have choices, especially when their demand is against what their identities desire them to do. First, from the identity limitation, the "honored" people in some perspective have to sacrifice their chances for the "mission" what their identities automatically mean. In ancient China, or even the contemporary Middle East countries, girls in Emperor families have been often assigned their marriage by political leaders, often as their parents or relatives, for the exchanging value of the political reasons, such as a ceasefire of a war, a policy for friendly diplomacy or even a promise for never invading. Also, particular responsibilities require the people with them to play the role what they have been expected to play. Many soldiers devote themselves but without choices to give up on the way to kill people in another nation, to occupy the territory of another country, and thus to accomplish the orders which their leaders give out. The famous book written for the Vietnam War has indicated the ignorance of war from the young American soldiers. They were just educated on how to use the so-called advanced weapons, but did they feel fear for the war? Did they have the choice to drop down their firearms? Did they have the choices to leave the land with fire and go back to their home countries at the moment of the war to get together with their parents? The answer is NO. All in all, in these sorts of cases that people have been signified with identities to fight, to sacrifice, or even to die, choice, has become a difficult action to take.

Furthermore, people's chances can be limited by their particular surroundings as well as the particular moments they are in. Surroundings, or environments, can directly influence the people's life and chances to choice inside. For example, in many Africa countries with poverty and famine, the children have no choices to be educated with the knowledge to explore the outside world. In many advertising posts for seeking donations and help towards these children, we can see the keen desire for education inside of the eyes of these poor kids. With the shadow as same as in many other social problems, people's choices have been limited and cannot be changed in a short term with the bad economy conditions and non-development physical environment. Temporal reasons can also contribute to the limitation of choices of people. Young people lower than 18 years old don't have the rights to vote, old people don't have the choices to be employed for some positions. Though these limitations are for the sake of better responsibities, it can also indicate that due to legislations and rules, choices have been ensured to lead to virtuous and positive directions. Hence, not all the choices are available if we account the special surroundings and moments into consideration, which not only reminds people with the duty to ameliorate the bad environments for who also live on this planet, but also utilize these duties inside the scope of rules and legislations.

In conclusion, within the perspective which is for ordinary people in ordinary environment, the choices are everywhere. People can work hard for their dreams to get a brighter future and to enrich their lives as much as they can, in the basis not to harm others. However, with the appreciation about the flexibility to choose, human being, as a whole should also consider about their congener who are suffering from the lack of choices. No matter to be more democracy, or to stop the wars, or to solve social problems, there are always actions we can take to better the current situation.