I am just now wondering how much choice we have in any given situation. We like to feel we have a multitude of choice and control over the actions in our life. Although whether or not this is the case, in my mind, is unsubstantiated.
There are extraneous factors such as mental health, stress, effects of drug and alcohol etc. Then there are also moral and ethical questions such as what makes up our moral fibre? What family of origin contexts do we come from and learn within? If we are making decisions subconsciously based on information we have adopted from other people, how much control over the decision do we really have?
True, we could come to learn every reason we make every decision throughout our days, but despite the fact that it would take a lifetime to reach that place, even then what exactly would we base our ‘choices’ on?
This is not an argument in favour of fate, I am not suggesting in this article that we have a predetermined destiny. For an article with more on that you could go here. What I am saying is that we make our choices with so much past history already cemented in our minds and so many external factors at play that we, ourselves, really don’t have too much actual interaction with the choice. Unless your argument is that our identity is made up of that same information and therefore our decision are our own, which is in effect a product of the information, context that we have come from. But what then about the external influences, mental health concerns and/or effects of alcohol/drugs? These all effect our decision making and choices. Does the existence of these factors really have that much of a influence on our decisions??? Answers?
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