Doing what he had to do: not the kind of duty imposed by someone else, or by the state, but the kind that one chooses for oneself.
Unless one's moral outlook comes from being thought-out and chosen for oneself, it is at best an imitation of morality, at worst a subversion of it.
Even when, appalled and incredulous, she becomes unwittingly pregnant at the age of 16, she recognizes the importance of knowing for oneself, of choosing for oneself (no, she will have to insist on keeping her child, thanks just the same).
If they rise to that challenge, then any specialized undertaking -- be it in business, finance, law, medicine, journalism, education, entertainment or the arts -- will be their last liberal art, the one that follows upon developing the worldly wisdom to choose wisely for oneself.
BA 10 is engaged in particular when the choice is completely ours, as well as when it is completely up to others to choose for us which in turn gives rise to an attribution of control to oneself or someone else, respectively.
Anxiety is a two-sided emotion: on one side is the dread burden of choosing for eternity; on the other side is the exhilaration of freedom in choosing oneself.
One was homophily, the tendency to choose friends like oneself.
After all, taking risks is a job requirement for the presidency, and the very act of choosing to expose oneself to jeopardy demonstrates that quality.
Having a "real option" means having the possibility, for a certain period, to choose either for or against making an investment decision, without binding oneself up front.
The key point is to explicitly acknowledge whom one chooses as a constituent and why, what this means for oneself as a political actor, and how this effects principled humanitarian action.
