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    It is not the case that A person can be dominated even when power is not actively being exercised against them at the present moment.

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    • 1.Domination requires the ongoing capacity to interfere, not merely the historical memory of past interference.
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    • 2.If a boss loses all authority to fire employees, a worker's residual fear reflects psychological conditioning, not genuine domination.
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    • 3.Confusing the epistemic effects of past power with the structural fact of present domination conflates subjective experience with objective relations of power.
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    • 1.On Hobbes's analysis, power relations are defined by actual present capability, not the lingering shadow of prior exercise.
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    • 2.A relationship in which interference is permanently foreclosed—by law, incapacity, or exit rights—lacks the asymmetric vulnerability that constitutes domination proper.
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    • 1.Domination can persist when unexercised because of its previous exercise.
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    • 2.The actual exercise of power can condition a social relationship in a longstanding manner.
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    • 3.If power has been exercised over someone in the past, or over members of the same subordinated social group, this affects how that person relates to those in power.
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