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And how should I make sense of that? Are you assuming that not only is the boundary fuzzy, but people disagree about the direction of motion there?
A person controlled by Borg implants seems like a good example of 1, but I think you'd find widespread agreement about what changes would make that person more or less free (except among those who insist the boundary is sharp and binary).
The boundary is certainly Sorites-fuzzy, not much can be done about that, I suspect.
I did not mean that, no, but who knows.
I tend to agree, but I can imagine a counterargument "but this person can still imagine other choices, and would follow them if not for the implants". By the way, no need to go sci-fi, just replace Borg implants with voices in your head, or being physically restrained, etc.
As I said in my other replies, I don't imagine how the issue of free will can be productively discussed without people agreeing on hat they mean by it in non-central cases.