These were choices you were forced to make, meaning you had no choice at all.
Madness string 2068
Like a good programmer, a good artist is a lazy perfectionist - creative, bold, and at times downright ingenious.
It took me a long time to come around to the reality of this, the true horror of it all, and how misguided the entire philosophy of its necessity really was. That even the 'good', the 'just', could fail to communicate so completely that all they fall back to is a threat, that if you do not do what they want, bad things will come to you. And that is neither good nor just.