On Choice

When it comes to choice, has anyone ever been more on the muscle than Shakespeare with Hamlet's soliloquy. 

My buddy was courtholding awhile back and going so far as to blame illness and even death on choices we make. If we have cancer, it is because somehwere in our psych, we decided to open ourselves up to that disease. This is a wonderful way to blame the dead for living.

I asked him about death and he responded that we never die. Death is the easy part, being born is the hard part. Dude speaks as if he's the traveler come back from the undiscovered country and knows the score. I asked him about Hamlet and he freaked out.

Don't think he was familiar with the character.

There is no choice according to my man. There is only one answer and that answer is "to be". Matter is indestructible and "we" will always "be" no matter what happens.

IMHO, my man was pretzel logicing while leap frogging always a delicious combination.

Currently, in America, the idea of choice is a hot topic. Looks like the Supreme Court is about to overturn Roe vs Wade. Many women are offended by men telling them what they can choose to do with their own bodies. 

My buddy, faced that choice many years ago when due to drunkeness and irresponsibility, he impregnated his "girl friend" but wanted to abort thr consequence. This was before Roe vs Wade. Back in the days when Richard Brautigan write his book The Abortion. Abortion was still illegal at the time.

Dude had no money and cme to me for help. This was my first choice. I decided to help him out and lend him the money that he needed to fix the situation. I lent him a grand whixch was a lot of money back then to pay for a quack. I was much more concerned about his "girl" and her health than he was.

Even though Dude never paid me back, I became pro-choice at this point and my buddy decided "not to be" when it came to his own consequence. As for myself, I decided that if I cared for woman enough to for a pregnancy then I cared about the consequence of that care and would be responsible for it.

Many of us felt that way back in the day before the pill and the revolution which changed everything.

Yeah, I'm with Hamlet. I'm with Shakespeare. Sometimes we have a choice, sometimes we don't. That's the essence of humanity.

A woman is entitled to her choice.

The embyo, not so much.