How do you define (meaningful) choice?

[Renathras]

I'm more trying to just see what people think than have a debate, but I do want to posit this:

If all choices are the right choice, then there is choice, just not meaningful choice.
If there is one right choice and everything else is wrong, then there is no choice - meaningful or otherwise.

I contest that only one right answer is a choice, much less a meaningful one.

So I feel like to have meaningful choice, there must be at the very least more than one right answer. The answers can be different flavor of thing - as noted before, HPS vs HPM is a meaningful choice in games where healing actually has a MP management component - but there must be more than one viable choice. If some choices are objectively worse (using Medica if you have Afflatus Rapture up or using Cure 2 if you have Afflatus Solace OR Tetragrammaton up), then there is no choice, meaningful or otherwise. There's only doing it right and fatfingering it (hence the 1-2-3 vs 1-3-1-3 mentioned above), which isn't a choice, meaningful or otherwise.

EDIT:

Oh, as an example of this - just invaded my brainspace:

Broil IV vs Ruin 2.

Ruin 2 has some cases where it is the better choice (situational) than Broil IV, and Broil IV has many situations where it is the better choice. But there is some gray area where it's up to the user. A tight movement where you MIGHT be able to get in the Broil, but the player might deem it too risky and go for the Ruin 2. This is still a meaningful choice since there is a choice and which answer is right isn't necessarily a set thing.

Contrast with Physic, which is basically always the wrong answer, and thus not a choice.