Is belief really a choice?

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If she had to choose to turn a blind eye, it would be difficult to argue that she didn't believe it was happening...wouldn't it.

I never stated she was not lying in her argument. Not everyone has the ethics to be honest when covering their own hide.

Woman knows something bad is happening to her child, but she does not interfere for fear of losing her husband. > Woman therefore chooses to ignore the problem to keep her husband. > The truth comes out by some means, say a teacher discovers it. > The woman, to hide her shame of not doing anything sooner, lies to the public that she had no idea it was going on.

Each one of the steps included a choice of either doing one thing or another. Every action we choose, every decision we make, has an opposite action or decision we could have chosen instead.