But he still had a choice. And made a choice.
In a manner of speaking. Yet, it could also be said that he made the only choice that he was capable of making based on who and what he is; two factors he had absolutely no control over.
That doesn't really explain how one person can make a different choice about the same thing over the course of a week.
Monday: I drank alcohol, even though it's highly risky for me
Tuesday: I realized I should not drink alcohol and decided not to
Same person, same activity, two different choices.
You aren't the same person on Tuesday that you were on Monday. The consideration you put into it probably weren't the same, either.
An example I've used in the past:
Henry Lucas's mother was a prostitute. When she got too old and haggard to make money on her back, she put a wig on Henry and pimped him out. Somewhere along the line he developed a sense of hostility towards women--go figure. He went on to become a serial killer of some notoriety. Depending on who you asked, he killed between 4 and 200+ women; nobody really knows since he was also prone to exaggeration.
If his trial had been some NBC prime time drama, some asshole prosecutor would have told a jury "this animal made a conscious decision to murder that sweet young girl!" That's actually a logical conclusion if you believe the religious mumbo-jumbo that we're free to make decisions independent of who and what we are. I disagree with that. I don't think that Lucas made a decision to do jack shit. He was a monster created over the duration of his life. His decision making process was a work in progress that began when he was born and was evolving every day. His mom would probably be the more guilty party in the whole unfortunate affair, if you ask me. At no point did he wake up and say "today I will be a serial killer!"
This actually raises an interesting point. Livehard strikes me as the sort who'd have been all over executing his ass down here in Texas, yet he disputes the existence of freewill. I'm curious how that would resolve itself.