During your life, you make many decisions that affect you and those around you. The decisions you make are an example of your free will and they make you who you are. The problem with making decisions is that you have to take into account the other people that will be affected by it and then decide if it’s worth the outcome.
The statement “In life, I must make choices regardless of what’s best for others. I can only choose what’s best for me,” is a very ignorant statement and not one that should be conveyed to the public as a whole. This mentality is common in people, they feel what they do has no effect on the people around them but that is ignorant and selfish thinking. For example when someone decides to drink and drive they are taking into account that it is what they as a person choose to do and the consequences they will face but not of what could happen to innocent bystanders.
I believe that this way of thinking is bad and a horrible way to look at life. People argue that the definition of a choice is a person’s right to make a decision that affects their life, so they never take into account those around them. When you realize you have overdrawn your bank account, your wife has left you, your car is repossessed and you have three cents in your pocket, it may seem like a good idea to rob a bank. This would be an example of only thinking of your needs. To someone with the attitude of making choices that are best for you with no consideration for others, this would seem like a great idea because even if you don’t get away with it you still get free room and board in the local prison. But for the rest of the world we think about the people involved and those that may be affected in the process and we decided “hey maybe robbing a bank should go on my not to do list.” If everyone in the world thought about their own needs over those around them the world could not function. There would be no compassion because no one would care about what is going wrong...