Jim Anderson at Decorabilia considers the multiplicity of choices we make each day. Now some of our discussions would argue that as beings driven by deterministic processes we cannot make choices at all. However, be that as it may, we certainly have the perception that we make choices. But among those myriad choices some of them are “lighter” than others. That is, some of those choices have obvious moral or ethical freight, while others don’t.
Augustine in The City of God argues (indirectly if memory serves) that those choices we make are essentially worship. That those choices demonstrate the god(s) (or probably less often God) to whom we truly offer ourselves. So, consider those choices in your day for another reason, not just a literay counterfactual exercise, but to ponder what sort of pantheon you set for yourself on the altar of your life.
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