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    Domination does not require the active exercise of power ... — Carmelics
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    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.

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    • 1.Witnessing power exercised over others who are relevantly like oneself is sufficient to condition one's behavior through fear.
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    • 2.A worker who has never been fired or threatened, but has seen coworkers fired, will still comply with the boss's wishes out of fear.
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    • 3.The conditioning effect of past power exercises extends across members of a subordinated social group, not only to those directly targeted.
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    • 1.Domination, as Pettit defines it, requires the *capacity* to interfere arbitrarily, which is a structural relation between agents, not a psychological effect on the dominated.
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    • 2.Conditioning behavior through fear of witnessed punishment is an empirical causal mechanism, not the normative structural condition that constitutes domination as unfreedom.
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    • 3.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.Robert Nozick's historical entitlement theory holds that a power relation only generates moral concern when it involves actual coercive interference with an agent's rightful holdings or choices.
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    • 2.If no direct act of interference has occurred against individual A, the moral wrong—if any—belongs exclusively to those actually interfered with, not to relevantly similar bystanders.
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    • 3.Extending domination claims to those never directly targeted risks dissolving the agent-specific harm condition that makes rights violations action-guiding rather than merely sociological.
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    Key Terms

    The active exercise of power(as used in describing how domination works)
    Actually doing something to control or influence someone, rather than just having the ability to do so.
    domination(Political philosophy / republican theory of freedom)
    A social condition in which power is held over a person such that their behavior is conditioned by fear of what the power-holder can do, regardless of whether that power is currently being actively exercised against them.
    relevantly similar(The author's framing of the standard for comparing same-sex and opposite-sex unions in the marriage equality debate)
    Similar with respect to the specific values or functions under consideration, as opposed to identical in all respects

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    Extending domination claims to those never directly targeted risks dissolving th...If no direct act of interference has occurred against individual A, the moral wr...

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    The controversy about whether completely dormant power can dominate continues, but there is broad consensus that you can be dominated even if nobody is actively dominating you at the moment. Even if there is no domination without an actual display of power over you or people like you at some time, domination might persist when unexercised precisely because of its previous exercise. As Wartenberg (1990) says, the actual exercise of power can “condition” a social relationship in a “longstanding” m
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    Robert Nozick's historical entitlement theory holds that a power relation only g...
    The conditioning effect of past power exercises extends across members of a subo...
    Witnessing power exercised over others who are relevantly like oneself is suffic...
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