You can choose political beliefs if you are aware of alternative political beliefs existing. If you live, work, and learn in an environment that is actively excluding political beliefs, so that only one political belief exists in your environment, can you really choose your political belief then?<p>It&#x27;s debatable if nothing productive can come from sharing a department with people whose beliefs are different from your own, but it&#x27;s actively counterproductive to exclude those people.