:^)
Then on the other hand, one could convincingly argue that man is hardly lacking, let alone destitute of, real choices in life, absolutely every day we breathe air.
I gather this is still an [the???] open question? Or are we to concede that the dogmatists of whatever stripe out there have shut down this problem forever, with their ever neat and clever adumbrations of so-called reality?
A dogmatist-- assuming he's not the dictator in a theocracy -- can only shut down the problem as far as he is concerned. But in this country, each of us is free to keep our options open. (But if someone wants to deny free will, I guess it's inappropriate to regard that as keeping one's options open.)