The Giver #1

I think that having my future decided for me is not ideal. However, if I were to make an error in the process it would destroy my career, but if my future was decided for me that would give me less margin for error. Therefore my whole future would be pre-determined. Systems like this take out risk but also take out potential in people. The leaders of the community are extremely old fashioned, they've been living the same way as they were 100 years ago, so there is no progress just sameness and everyone is just a carbon-copy of everyone else.
Having decisions made for you is the equivelent of being told constantly what to do, but this this actually agreeing with it and not putting up a fight. I think that the community just take this for granted and think this as normal and they think that even wondering about the possibilities of making big decisions is absurd.
If living in a modern day amish would mean living in a world without hurt,pain,war, or anyother inplseant feeling but have to sacrifice your freedom and freethinking, then what would be the point of it if there was no progress?