Free to choose

In this article: Facing tough choices -- what does being 'free to choose' really mean?

Pro-life vs pro-choice
Gay is normal vs gay is abnormal
A belief in God vs atheism
Evolution vs Creation
Pro-death vs anti-death penalty

Tough choices ... whose right and how to make the right choice?

Having a choice implies you're already and really free to choose. And I'm not talking about you legal rights to choose, I'm talking about you're freedom of mind to choose.

Free to choose means you are able to fully, cognitively and emotionally, with full mind and heart, without resistance, fear, anger or the desire for peace of mind ... embody fully both positions.

Only once you can do that, are you truly able to freely choose.

And promoting or championing a cause with anything less, is violent. Sure it may not be physical violence, but whether physical or psychological, violence is violence.

It's significant

Don't start with big tough, emotionally charged dualities like the ones I've used. You wouldn't begin gym by loading up the bench press with 550 lbs, or with a high speed 120 km cycle.

Start small, build the muscle and earn your right to be free. Few are.

Else you're just driven by narrow self-serving ideological world-views, uptight and tied-up.

Explore the smallest contradictory perspectives, talk about and develop them fully. Not because they're important, but because you're in training.