If I read what the free choicers say here I am reminded of the German expressions 'hang it a bit lower, please' or 'don't you have it a bit cheaper'. What for you seems to be a question digging deep into the human soul, freedom, human rights and all that, is for others a mere question of convenience and time management.

Wolfgang are you saying that having free choice is a bad thing? And that active efforts to ensure that we all have the free choice to express our different opinions is somehow a questionable aim? You may well have been making no judgement at all but just pointing out our differences?

Howevr, the imposition of free choice is probably better that imposing its absence. Not sure if or what judgement you are making but it rather looks as if those who now take hard-won freedoms for granted feel they are superior to and should judge those strive to actively maintain their freedom - using that very freedom.

They are of course free to do so - but it does seem a little ungrateful. Perhaps even a little short-sighted? Perhaps losing this hard won freedom again - may bring a different set of values?

'You Don't Know What You've Got, Till It's Gone'..........