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Determination

On the first image titled 'Autonomy / Self-determination', a Triangle-person is shown putting on a hat saying 'I should wear a hat'. Two arrows loop from the person back to themselves, labeled 'rules' and 'responsibility'. On the second image titled 'Heteronomy / Willing external determination', an adult Triangle-person is shown giving a child Triangle a hat and an apple, sayng 'Please wear a hat.'. One arrow points towards the child labeled 'rules', the other points back labeled 'dependency.' On the third image labeled 'Fremdbestimmung / Forced external determination', a Square-person in an army helmet is shown in a tank, with the hat poised on the tip of the gun barrel, screaming through the megaphone 'WEAR A HAT!' At gunpoint, a Triangle-person is shown scared to death with hands up. An arrow points from the tank to the Triangle-person labeled 'rules.'

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