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It's a choice in respects. I think the concept of choice relies on the intuitive belief that we have freewill. If you go along the lines of determinism, then we simply have no ability to choose freely. Therefore, there simply cannot be choice because choice is assumed to be free.
If you can call an involentery action a choice, then yes it's still a choice.
But it's not involuntary; it's just that you were always going to 'volunteer' to do it.
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I get what you're saying, but imagine you were going to kill that person, no matter what. It was set in stone, so to speak. If this were the case then how can you be responsible for that action? It makes no sense. If we're not in control, we can't be blamed for anything we do. Indeed, someone may say that the act was immoral but if we have no free choice, can there be any morality? Acting morally or immorally is something we have to freely choose to do. If we have no ability to freely choose then we have no morality.
I'm not adding much to what I said to the first bit of your post, but: we are in control. We performed the action of weighing up the consequences and making a decision; i.e. 'control'. Yes, the outcome was always going to be the same, but still, we did perform that crucial action.