<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I like Amartya Sen's take on what he calls "agency".  <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026184" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026184</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:none;display:flex;font-family:"GT America Standard",Helvetica,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Droid Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.3199999928474426px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.9375rem;width:341px;float:right;min-width:0px"></div></div><div style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"GT America Standard",Helvetica,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Droid Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.3199999928474426px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"GT America Standard",Helvetica,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Droid Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.3199999928474426px"><a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2026184" title="This link opens in a new window" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-skip:objects;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2307/2026184</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 2:25 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    Marcus wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">You are made of matter following some
          trajectory that was initiated with the big bang, and you will
          go where you will go.  There is no “deserve”.</p>
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    <p>            "The universe is flux, all else is opinion" - M.
      Aurelius <br>
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    <pre>and... 
        "they're merely talking to hear themselves speak" - G. Ropella

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