Re: choices

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≪Another way of saying it is: to the extent that you automatically,
without choice, act a certain way, ethics cannot evaluate it at all.
There's no moral right or wrong about how your cells metabolize. There
has to be choice for morality to apply. "Should implies can" as they
[Kant] say.≫
As Nietzsche said, to be really effective, a morality must become so
internalized that people act instinctively, without thinking. Or indeed
Plato (in The Laws), who maintained that the common man should be
brainwashed into accepting a state creed; those who refused should be
executed. Thinking about moral choices is strictly for professors of
philosophy; the common man should not think much less _choose_, he
should simply obey categorical imperatives.