Can the freedom to choose be a drawback?
Freedom to choose has several drawbacks:-1. The person has to think before deciding, and thinking takes effort. Not everyone likes 'effort', especially in the 'thinking' department!2. Having chosen, the chooser is responsible for the consequences of making that choice. Many people don't like to take responsibility for their actions. If things go wrong, they only have themselves to blame, but if they are just following orders, or have no alternatives, they feel they can't be blamed for anything bad that might happen as a result of doing what they did.3. It takes time to choose. Shopping in a supermarket would certainly be a lot quicker if there was only one typeof everything they have on offer. Freedom to choose makes shopping a major undertaking!4. When our minds should be focusing on major matters that need urgent solutions, our minds are being bombarded by advertising blurb which presents an ever-increasing range of things to choose from.If we weren't distracted by all the choices we seem to have, we could be more productive and effective in those matters which vitally need our attention. But the distraction of 'choice' is so powerful that we seem to have forgotten what it is we have been distracted from!5. Choice means waste. Manufacturers continue to produce 'ranges' of similar products in the hope of securing greater market share. With 'choice' many product lines will not be the 'flavor of the month', and all that production effort will go to waste. When people have choice it is difficult, nay, impossible to predict what they will buy. And unwanted products have to be scrapped. What a waste!6. Freedom to choose means we have bigger wardrobes. (to house a selection of clothes from which we can choose each day) Bigger wardrobes mean bigger houses. Bigger houses mean more financial burdens. More financial burdens mean stress. Oh for the simple life! It would make getting up and going out so much easier!