Having just read Lois Lowrys book The Giver you gave me the question would you want your future to be decided by others.
There are many answers to this question but i think i would not like my future to be decided for me. One reason is because we are all born with a brain with the ability to think for ourselves although in modern day societies we are still not allowed to think totally for ourselves till we are 18 years old. By then it is expected that you will have the abilities to think for yourself. Its nice to be able to express your feelings of love or hate. But of course you can not show your feelings in the community in the book so they have no clue what I like or what I hate.
Although living in a Utopian community sounds like a good idea there is no freedom of anything. Say you did not want to work with the old people and you were sent there you would have no choice unless you asked for release which we later on learned was death.
After reading this book i know i could not live like that with no choices.