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	<blockquote class="definition">'''Availability of Choice''' is the principle that the self (little "s" self or [[Bodily Ego]] can only choose from what is made available to it by its [[Enabling Context\|context]].		<blockquote class="definition">'''Availability of Choice''' is the principle that the self (little "s" self or [[Bodily Ego]]) can only choose from what is made available to it by its [[Enabling Context\|context]].
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'''Availability of Choice''' is the principle that the self (little "s" self or Bodily Ego can only choose from what is made available to it by its context.

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== Notes ==

# Choice is never unconstrained. The options a self perceives, values, and selects from are drawn from the material, relational, and cultural environments that surround it. A child cannot aspire to what it has never encountered; a worker cannot demand conditions that no workplace in their society provides; a culture cannot supply identities it has not imagined.
# This principle raises political, economic, and sociological questions:
#* '''What is made available?''' Which identities, roles, aspirations, and opportunities does a given context supply to the selves embedded within it?
#* '''What is withheld?''' Which options are absent, hidden, stigmatized, or structurally inaccessible — and what does their absence cost the self?
#* '''Who decides?''' Availability is not natural or neutral. It is produced: by economic arrangements, by political power, by cultural gatekeepers, by the design of the built environment, by the distribution of resources within families and communities.
# Two important corollaries follow:
#* '''Perceived availability and actual availability are not the same.''' A self may not perceive options that in fact exist, and may perceive options that are in fact closed to it. Ideology, propaganda, and socialization shape what appears choosable.
#* '''Harm constrains availability.''' When a circle of relation harms the self, the self withdraws and forms boundaries for protective reasons. The resulting disconnection narrows what the self experiences as available — a contraction that persists until the harm is addressed. See [[Circle of Self]].
# The question of availability of choice connects the [[Circle of Self]] directly to sociology, economics, and political science: these disciplines study precisely how options are produced, distributed, and restricted across populations. A full account of self formation must therefore attend not only to psychology — how the self develops — but to the structure of the context — what the self is permitted to develop ''toward''.
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