The paradox of choice...I too find myself wishing I had made a different decision on the meal I chose at a certain restaurant, that there were less options on the menu so that my girlfriend would pick already, and at times wanting more options. However, I believe that these issues root from the faults of our human nature. I do not believe that because we have more options we now have more regret. The grass is always greener, and it has always been. If I chose a candy bar A over Candy Bar B I will question my decision. If I only have Candy Bar A to choose from I will wish I had more options. If I have hundreds of candy bars to choose from and choose candy bar A, I will say I should have chose one of the other candy bars. Humans are always taking hindsight into consideration. When we had less choices we wanted more. Now that we have more we think it is probably better if we had less. I call BS. I say that we are naturally unsatisfied beings. The only thing that I agreed with was that with more choice we now have to put the blame on ourselves. I believe this is a very good thing, but it does not come with more choice. We have always been solely responsible for the outcome regardless the amount of choice we have. Having more options does not pass responsibility from one person to another, it just removes the ability blaming it on someone else. We are always responsible for the choices we make. The doctor does know more about medicine than me. But if he did not give me the choice and something went wrong I would blame him. Would it be his fault? No I made choices to get into his chair in the first place. So now he gives me the choice and all I want him to do is choose for me. There is major flaw in this. But it is not due to the amount of choice I have, there are far too many other variables at play.
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