choice and its burden

Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial.

Choice and freedom.

As President Obama would have said, "Let me be clear..." - absolute no choice and absolute no freedom is definitely bad. Counter-productive. Destroys the welfare of the human soul.

But it does not necessarily mean that an infinite number of choices increases productivity and enriches our welfare. In fact, at a certain number of choices, (and the economists have to figure out this number) - the return of our best choice diminishes and we will already feel bad about our best choice = )

Meaning, once all the choices are really known, it goes on to say that we also know all the opportunity cost of all the choices that we did not choose. Right?

So, at a certain number - the value of our best choice will be overran by the summation of all the opportunity cost of all the choices that we did not choose. Right?

So, does it mean that the more choices we know, the worse off we will feel later when we already have chosen our best choice? Hmmm.... Interesting = )

So, does it also mean, that from this context, ignorance is bliss? Or maybe just a certain of level of ignorance = )

Maybe the Salesmen got it right. If the issue is to close a sale, try the time-tested approach: limit the choices. Because if we let the goal of choosing the best choice for the sake of choosing the best choice - we won't get anywhere.

I guess, decisions and choices will need happen, even if we feel bad about them afterward, because our life on earth is also finite. Choice have to be understood in the context of time for in the the end, our time will end.

And as a matter of fact, we were not given a choice about that either. But as to how we end, well, we have an infinite choice about that = )

And suddenly, for me, time has a new meaning.

"... why think like mere men?"