The way the text of the Bible is worded doesn't necessarily have to be taken to mean that it was individuals who chose to receive or refuse the mark of the beast. It could just as well be taken to mean that it was the beast who chose who to mark and who not to mark - based on his criteria of whether or not an individual was known to have worshiped the beast or his idol. There may or may not have been any direct involvement by individuals in the choice of whether or not to be marked. Their only choice may have been in whether or not they had worshiped the beast or his idol.
The meaning was simply that non-worshipers of this particular ruler were deliberately discriminated against economically. The way the text is worded doesn't necessarily imply that individuals shall choose or refuse to be microchipped - it requires a fair bit of interpretive licence to insist on that view, which is just one of many possible interpretive models that have been proposed through the centuries.
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