gwillen comments on Ethicality of Denying Agency - Less Wrong Discussion
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Let me rephrase that as "treating them like they have a diminished capacity for agency, which is only appropriate if they actually do."
There's a cultural presumption, which I am neither intending to support nor to argue with here, that children fall into this category.
Indeed. But more importantly, do adults fall into that category? That's what's being discussed here.