...Why remove the choice for them?...
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...even though I don’t have any aspirations to compete at worlds, I wouldn’t want someone to make that choice for me.
You know, it's somewhat transcending the scope of the discussion, but this is an angle you might see in a lot of places, if you know what you're looking at; something that seems to show up in almost any sort of rhetoric, or theory, or debate out there. At times, something that can seem an all too human conceit.
People are intensely preoccupied with the idea of
potential; no arguments sway the limbic systems of man more than ones that invoke it. They love the idea of
more potential for something, they bemoan the idea of
lost potential for something, they hate or fear the idea of
not having potential for something...
even if or when it is something that has nothing to do with them personally.
Because people love potential, a man might agitate to unbar floodgates open to the
potential for all sorts of unintended consequences, or externalities, or abuses, simply because he likes
the idea of being able to do thing if he wanted too,
even if he doesn't actually want too.
The desire for control (or frustrated will to power) sublimates itself through all sorts of different fantastic outlets.