Yeah, I know you're serious. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference (and evidently one that is important psychologically) between a situation where there is only one possibility and a situation where there are many possibilities, but somebody else chooses for you. I know people who stayed angry for years because their parents made them go to a certain college or their boss canceled a product line they created.
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No no, seriously. There was a TED presentation about this unintuitive phenomenon. It was posted here a while ago.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_...
edit: Fixed the link, it wasn't the one I meant to link to.
Yeah, I know you're serious. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference (and evidently one that is important psychologically) between a situation where there is only one possibility and a situation where there are many possibilities, but somebody else chooses for you. I know people who stayed angry for years because their parents made them go to a certain college or their boss canceled a product line they created.