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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 9109128" data-attributes="member: 6795602">I'm asking about the definition provided.  The one we were discussing.  The one you keep claiming differentiates 'degrees of agency'.I asked a simple question:If ONLY one of the following is true: both people have the capacity to choose what they wear, What they eat for breakfast, Where they work, How they allocate their time at work do those people have the capacity to make choices and affect change?  Essentially does only meeting one of those requirements meet the provided definition of that person having agency.  Your first sentence seems to say yes, albeit in a very roundabout way!  Which is what I'm saying - by the definition being used all those people have agency.  Period.Now what we can do with that definition is get more specific and ask - agency over what?  And person A might have agency over 7 of the 10 things asked about and person B might have agency over 5 of the 10 things asked about.  That's not degrees though, that's just types.  On the surface it even appears person A has more types of agency.  But counting types when we haven't established they are atomic gets very difficult - not to mention the complications where there might be infinite types and then trying to compare different counts of infinity.</blockquote>