Choices in Tamriel

I was playing The Elder Scrolls Online this morning, and encountered a quest where a spirit tells the player to cast some powerful tomes into an eternal fire, the only way to destroy them. Typical to the Elder Scrolls methods, the player can 'choose' what to do, cast the tomes into the fire or 'walk away'. Only, when I tried walking away to see what happens, nothing does. The quest goes nowhere. Is this a choice?? Of course not! You know what this does? It simply makes the player think like there is no choice whatsoever in the rest of the instances where their choices actually has an affect on gameplay or lore.