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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card
Choices, Soul, Responsible
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Hypocrisy, Choices, Important
"Ender in Exile". Book by Orson Scott Card, November 11, 2008.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Orson Scott Card
Two, Choices, Terrible
Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Worthing Saga”, p.108, Macmillan

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Orson Scott Card
Choices, Community, Survival

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, People, Choices

So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said.

Orson Scott Card
Nice, Kissing, Choices

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