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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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