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So this adds a complication, that of measuring how much of an entity's power over a person is just.
Power over someone is never justified except maybe in certain situations which I am having a hard time finding the word for; the only example I can think of is voluntary power exchanges of the BDSM sort (and even these have been known to go wrong).
and this could easily imply the decision always to treat a non-person entity as having less moral force.
This seems right to me, although almost independent of the power thing.
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So this adds a complication, that of measuring how much of an entity's power over a person is just.
Power over someone is never justified except maybe in certain situations which I am having a hard time finding the word for; the only example I can think of is voluntary power exchanges of the BDSM sort (and even these have been known to go wrong).
and this could easily imply the decision always to treat a non-person entity as having less moral force.
This seems right to me, although almost independent of the power thing.