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DMFParadox -> RE: "Making" a sub/slave do something... (3/7/2008 2:53:53 PM)
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Try this one on for size.
How can you avoid making someone do *something*? Every action you take invites a reaction, and when you don't get a reaction, THAT's a reaction. You can live in a cave for the rest of your life, but by failing to affect anything, you are effectively affecting everything.
Discussions like this one are nifty. Ultimately, all forms of influence stem from the same source, and follow the same pattern. Any aggregated community of elements will, based upon the types and stages of complexity within that community, create specific types of power exchange, defined by the effect and the scope of units affected to attain the effect. For example, to knock the 9 ball in the corner pocket, you may end up hitting every other ball in a pocket first, or you may have a clear shot and knock it in first. How you do it not only depends on the rules of the game and the way the balls lay, but individual choice. And you can, of course, make the wrong choice either way.
Enter the human element. Perceptions on an individual and group level overlay basic biological functions, which are modified by economic and historical factors, the weather, and proximity of the nearest uninvolved observer. Or partially involved observers. Can, given this environment of incredible complexity, with more and various technologies, social agreements, economies of scale in legal and moral values disputing localized legal and moral choices... can someone make someone else do something?
Absolutely. You can't not make someone do something. Getting them to do what you want, however, is an entirely different story. There, it's applied engineering; leverage, not strength. Good luck with it, you can do it if you really want to.
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