We aren’t trying to kill an enemy. We are trying to persuade other humans.
The former is the most powerful method I know of for the latter. As elspood mentioned, it obviously isn’t the victims in particular that will be persuaded.
Wouldn’t killing be better described in this context as coercion? Which feels distinct from persuasion, to me.
On humans it does both. Humans are persuaded by power, not merely coerced. (Being persuaded like that is a handy ‘hypocrisy’ skill given bounded cognition.)
The former is the most powerful method I know of for the latter. As elspood mentioned, it obviously isn’t the victims in particular that will be persuaded.
Wouldn’t killing be better described in this context as coercion? Which feels distinct from persuasion, to me.
On humans it does both. Humans are persuaded by power, not merely coerced. (Being persuaded like that is a handy ‘hypocrisy’ skill given bounded cognition.)