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by benvanderbeek 5040 days ago
"you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house."

I am going to use this phrase, thanks.

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Feel free. I wish it wasn't true, you know.
I like yours.

I generally use the example of a slave given sudden democracy: now they can vote which of two slave owners they want to be a slave to.

Vote, no vote: they're still a slave.

Sometimes, "choice" doesn't matter at all.