newcom comments on Motive Ambiguity

[newcom]

I remember encountering this same idea in Orwell’s ’1984′:

’How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?’
Winston thought. ‘By making him suffer,’ he said.
‘Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough.
Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?’