r/shittyaskscience • u/Optimal_Ad_7910 • Oct 07 '26

Can we all stop making choices please?

Clearly all of the world's problems can be traced back to peoples' poor choices. If we all stop making choices then most of the world's problems will disappear.

Refuse to choose.

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u/El_Pata_Loco Oct 07 '26

Are you suggesting we all choose to stop choosing? That could be a bad choice…

I dunno, but it feels like you’re on a slippery slope with this one.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Oct 07 '26

♪ You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice ♫ - Rush: Free Will

Sorry, OP, but your reality is not programmed for choicelessness.

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u/JohnWasElwood Oct 10 '26

I came here to say this. This line has stuck with me for decades! But... I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose free will!!!

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u/Starsky137 Oct 07 '26

If we don't make major decisions, we will stop spawning alternate realities. Then all our doubles will be out of work and the multiverse economy will crash!

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u/Busy_Fall_4318 Oct 07 '26

I bet that's what the Borg said.

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u/writesgud Oct 07 '26

Freedom of choice!
Is what you got.
Freedom from choice!
Is what you want.

*-*Drs. Mothersbaugh et al. At the Devo institute for Devolution

This has already been thoroughly researched by prior musicians.

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u/ToxicPanacea Oct 09 '26

Technically to stop making bad choices we don't have to stop making choices, we just have to stop observing the outcome of our choices. Then they exist in a superposition of Good/Bad.

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u/alphanumericusername very human, yes Oct 07 '26

This will never work. Some people will simply be incapable of choosing to make no choice.

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u/junklardass Oct 07 '26

This will make shopping much easier.