ABSTRACT
I subscribe to the view that choice is inherently good and defensibly constrained only when “conduct [is] . . . calculated to produce evil to someone else” (Mill 1947, p. 10). Choice embodies two notions. The first refers to the act of choosing, that is, the freedom to engage in deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. The second refers to the options from which one may choose. Both are prerequisites to moral behavior. In order to do good, there must exist the possibility of choosing between right and wrong and one must have the freedom to do so.
