There's no right choice
Choices can be well reasoned or poorly reasoned.
Their consequences can be beneficial or bad, but there's no right choice, just a wide range of possibilities and for each, an endless web of consequences.
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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
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