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They need not choose pain and loneliness. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #243)

Indeed, mingled with expressions of fear, which I felt were fully justified, did I not note, as well, certain others, say, those of anticipation, of curiosity, or desire, or relief, or even of scarce-concealed elation? They would be choiceless. They need not choose then as they had been told they must choose. They need not choose then frustration, misery and suffering. They need not choose pain and loneliness. They need not choose then the self-alienating options prescribed for them by others, with their agendas extrinsic to the personal happiness of their victims. What is the value of choice when one must choose as one does not wish to choose? What is the value of choice when one must choose against one's own happiness, when one must choose self-denial, when one must choose what one hates? Better, choiceless, to be what one wants most to be. Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements of a pathological, puritanical culture alien to life and nature. - (Savages of Gor)