The puppet, wishes to be free You are free. Stay and die, go and live - you have your choice What choice is that! What do you expect, an infinite selection? To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things. Which is the most terrible, Jason? Which do you hate the most? Then choose the other and be glad
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Freedom is defined as having a choice, even if all options are terrible.
- In plain terms
- Having any choice at all makes you free.
- What can you take from it?
- Autonomy exists even in terrible choices.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is choice valuable if options are bad?
- How do you choose the least worst?
Another view
Terrible choices can still be paralyzing.
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