free choice
Voluntary selection option
Free choice is the ability to select among options without coercion or constraint.
The term emphasizes that a decision is made voluntarily rather than under pressure: It was her free choice to stay.
In philosophy, free choice intersects with debates about free will and determinism.
In retail, a free choice item lets customers pick what they want rather than accept a preset selection.
- volitionCapacity for choice
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- agencyPower to act
- personal agencyPower to act independently
- uncoercedDone without compulsion
self-determination · human rights · liberty · carte blanche · à la carte · consent · voluntary · moral responsibility · pick and choose · informed consent · opt-in · decision-making · voting rights · existentialism · blank slate · democracy · individualism · unfettered
- Optional Thingsoptional, voluntary, elective, nonbinding, unobligated
- freedomexpression, speech, political liberty, belief, conscience
- choiceschoose, decide, decision, select, selection
- autonomyself-rule, independence, self-determination, sovereignty, self-governance
- free willvolition, autonomy, initiative, agency, willingness
- obligationmandatory, obligatory, required, compulsory, optional
free choicecoercion
Pressured compliance through threats
compulsion · force · duress · compulsory · mandatory
free choicedeterminism
Doctrine of causal necessity
predetermination · predestination · fate · hard determinism · fatalism
free choicerequirement
Mandatory condition to fulfill
mandate · obligation · duty · no choice · Hobson's choice
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