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> pets can always run away > doesn’t make them have agency in any meaningful way these two sentences can't be true at the same time
by GeoAtreides 2y ago
> pets can always run away
> doesn’t make them have agency in any meaningful way
these two sentences can't be true at the same time
- jiggawatts 2y agoYou can be a wage slave and have the theoretical option of quitting. The humans in the Culture are similarly “free”, in that they’d have to give up their lavish and safe lifestyle for true freedom and self-determination. They choose not to, but they can. Some pets run away. Most don’t.