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Comment author: MugaSofer 07 July 2014 05:59:43PM 1 point [-]

While both the child and the mother might have the same class of agency with respect to the object level decision, they have different classes of meta level agency, that is agency about their decision how they want to choose and what kind of person they want to be.

I cannot parse this.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 July 2014 06:13:58PM 4 points [-]

They both know what their preferences are, but the child isn't fully equipped to choose better preferences.

Comment author: MugaSofer 10 July 2014 09:08:21PM 1 point [-]

Thanks!

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