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gift of choice! This is not a subject that any one of us has never heard
about, talked about or exercised as their freedom to make choices. We
think about what to do and then do it. We say, “I choose to go to the
beach, or the bar, or out dancing or to bed early.
It is this very significant ability to make choices that provide us with the
facility to go with or against the crowd, the gift to chart our own course
regardless of the opinions and beliefs of others, to break the limited
thinking and boundaries that others erect and want to control us with, or
importantly, to choose not to do so. We call it a gift, a good thing, a
blessing, a privilege, and properly employed that is true!
But there is another side to it. Having the ability to choose -- freedom of
choice -- also means that one can choose to use that gift to lie and
misdirect, to deceive and obfuscate, to use one’s intelligence, charm and
cleverness to do everything possible to put off the consequences of the
seeds they’ve planted, to some future time.
Emerson says, the offense and the punishment grow out of the same
stem, but the retribution may be spread over time. That’s right! There’s
your answer! Some people are just better than others – more clever at
covering their tracks – scarier at intimidating witnesses – more able to
pay people off.
Just like every other skill or sport or art form, there are infinite
gradations of ability that people have or cultivate to achieve their goal.
Watch twenty-five different TED talks, and you’ll see twenty-five
different levels of speech-making ability. Why would lying and cheating
be any different. It is also true that only humans have the ability to take
duplicity to levels we could never expect, and as we repeatedly witness
in crystal clarity, many do!
Yes, its true that people can use their intelligence and freedom to make