DeVliegendeHollander comments on Social prerequisites of rationality - Less Wrong Discussion
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Feeling empowered (feeling you are able to affect and change things) is perfectly personal, but coming from social conditions.
That is empowerment.
"empowerment" usually carries a lot more implications about the kind of choices and experiences that one can expect. I mean it only in the small sense.
The actual requirements of rationality are that one must be sentient and motile.