Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, even though they might deny such a preference.


Making a choice is a difficult process. But what if we decrease the number of option, will it make easy to select an option? Technically, Yes. So, the speaker suggest that
people prefer restriction and regulations to absolute freedom of choice even though they seem to deny it. If questioned I would completely agree with speaker's view point. The various reasons and examples to support my preposition have been further elaborated.

Firstly, the more the number of choices the more we will get confused. If you are not good at making quick decisions than the number of choices can drastically affect you. We have to make decision at every point of life. Consider the example of school where in higher secondary we were asked to select a stream. This was a quite tough decision for many students. At that time I was also confused which stream to select, I also wished if there would have been some other options it would have been beneficial cause I didn't had clear idea what I wanted to pursue. But the reality is more options would have caused more confusion to me at that time.

Secondly, as the number of choices increases your time to make a decision also increases. You have to filter out all the options which are not suited to you and then you have compare the remaining options. For example, consider the example when we wanted to purchase a car. As we know now there have been many options in car, so to select one among them is quite a difficult job. So, we first filtered out according to price, then according to manufacturer, then which model we want to purchase, and after all other specifications we finally decided which car to purchase.

Lastly, I am not suggesting that it's always helpful when there are less number of choices. I only meant to say that it only makes it easy to take a decision quickly. There are certain fields where having choices is must. For instance, consider from the political point of view it has become very necessary to have various candidates to fight for election. If we only have two or three options then there is high chance that only a particular party wins all the time, which would allow the party to do whatever they want.

To summarize, I prefer to have less options sometime so that I can make quick decision, but there are some circumstances where we need more choices. Hence, i completely agree with speaker's viewpoint.