When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.