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LawDeeDah

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21. I watched a TED talks on Choices the other day.

Reply to RandiFan1290 (Reply #6)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 04:19 PM

Nov 2014

We are bombarded with choosing between a 100 kinds of jeans or salad dressings to the point of it being detrimental to our mental health and somehow this gets mixed up with calling it one of our Freedoms.

I wish he would have brought up the area where there is least choice: the two political parties, but he didn't go that direction.

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