Wherever we stand, we always have a choice
True, But the implications is what I would like to think of!
True, when ever I was stuck, I had a choice. I could choose from a list of possible outcomes. When we say we can always choose, it doesn’t mean that its going to be easy, or even human.
When I say I started loving a girl, I had a choice. I could choose whether to love her, or to control my “uncontrollable ” feeling I had for her. I could be ideal, I could be robotic, and I could, really, perhaps, try to control it. But to control it, would be nothing less than inhuman, nothing less than robotic, where one would retain allegiance to his protocols without remorse or even any feelings! To control it would render me to something I am not!
I could think, I was thinking, and that is what I was made of!
Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am.
I could think, and I had feelings and that made me decide, Yes.. I do love her. Now, once, a choice is made, I donot think that once can back off from it. Whether it be a public proclamation or be it a self-instruction. A person of conscience can never go back.
The point I want to make is, the choices of your’s are like mountains on your shoulder. We can never put it of.
June 28, 2009 at 2:37 pm
when I read again,
it never made any sense to me.
Now, I cannot even put a reason for even posting this!
June 30, 2009 at 1:00 am
Your argument for “choice” is moot. The idea that you had multiple choices/courses of action becomes an issue only if you make a wrong choice. Thus, it’s always in hindsight that you realize that you had choice, and therefore nothing can be done about it.
June 30, 2009 at 7:09 am
hmm.. suppose there are 2 choices, one driven by your personal conscience, and the other by, say social conventions. And You take a one choice. Say, the first one. I chose 1, because anything other than 1, will be insane, as far as I am concerned!
Conclusion: Well, this is some kind of justification to tell myself that what I did was not wrong
PS: err..Thats exactly what Mute oracle said!