Opening page…
Does staying mean more when you're free to leave?
The ability to leave can change the meaning of staying, even when you never use it.
Your answer
A little context
You have worked at the same place for eleven years. A recruiter calls with a better offer and you turn it down. The next morning your desk feels slightly different: you are still there, but now you have chosen to be.
Nearby questions
- The oracle you can't refuseAn oracle exists that always gives the wisest possible answer to any decision — which city, which job, whom to marry. It has never once been wrong. How much of your life do you hand it?
- Do you have free will?Your genes, your upbringing and the laws of nature were all in place before you chose anything. The choice still felt like yours.
- Can you know what's right and still not do it?Socrates held that nobody does wrong knowingly, so anyone who does must not really know. Everyone who has broken a promise to themselves has doubts.
- If you've done nothing wrong, should you mind being watched?The argument sounds airtight until you picture every message, search and place you've been, laid out for the people who know you.
- Predicted before you choseIf a system can predict what you will choose before you know it yourself, is the choice still yours?
