40 Days of Life | Day 4 | What Choice?

Freedom of choice has little meaning unless the choice in question is defined. 

We are all faced with countless choices each day.  Choices have varying degrees of significance and outcomes, both favorable and undesirable.  Sometimes the wrong choice is made and consequences follow. A choice differs from a right.  Choices are limited in the same way personal freedom is bound by the freedoms of others.     

"The only freedom worth having, a freedom that does not finally trivialize our choices, is a freedom that acknowledges its limits and does not seek to be godlike.  That freedom, a truly human freedom, will acknowledge the duality of our nature and the limits to which it gives rise." (Bioethics by Gilbert Meilaender)

Before defending the right to choose, we must answer the question: what choice? 

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