Even ordinary needed helpers can hold dominating power over others

Evidence

The resources in virtue of which one person may have power over another are extraordinarily various: they range over resources of physical strength, technical advantage, financial clout, political authority, social connections, communal standing, informational access, ideological position, cultural legitimation, and the like. They also include the resource of being someone—say, being the only doctor or police officer around—whose help and goodwill the other may need in various possible emergencies. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 309

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘only doctor/police officer around’ domination-without-malice thread parallels dependence-based analyses of care and of trust in the reader’s other sources. — connects to: Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 606; Ordinary organizations can also socialize members into harming others, not just coercive ones — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3992; Subordinates inflict harm on their own group with benevolence to succeed within dominant rules — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 683

Broader Connections

• Subordinates inflict harm on their own group with benevolence to succeed within dominant rules #exemplifies (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 683
• Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility #exemplifies (0.78) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 606
• Ordinary organizations can also socialize members into harming others, not just coercive ones #exemplifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3992