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    Challenges→Domination does not require the active exercise of power against the dominated individual, though it may require the active exercise of power against someone relevantly similar to that individual.

    Conflating the psychological effects of domination with its constitutive conditions collapses the republican distinction between domination and mere subjugation by natural forces.

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    • 1.Domination requires an agent capable of imposing their will; natural forces lack intentionality, making the distinction conceptually necessary.
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    • 2.Psychology alone cannot ground political concepts; domination's normative force depends on structural power relations, not subjective experience.
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    • 3.Conflating effects with conditions risks treating oppression as inevitable, obscuring how institutions perpetuate domination through design.
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    • 1.The lived experience of powerlessness is politically relevant regardless of whether a dominator intends it; effects constitute harm's moral reality.
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    • 2.Republican theory cannot cleanly separate psychological effects from constitutive conditions—both are dialectically intertwined in power relations.
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    • 3.Insisting on agent-intentionality may exclude structural domination (algorithms, markets, norms) that function without conscious wielders.
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