doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Not at all.That does not seem to follow from the example.
The example seems to apply to overpowering someone in a grapple just as much as to killing them or using mind control.
The grappler hasn't taken control of the person's mind. Or killed them, for that matter. It's a patently silly comparison.The mind controller/grappler/killer takes control of the opponent's hand and uses it to open the palm lock they did not want opened.
Whatever happened isn't necessarily the point, though. While being grappled and physically forced to do something against your will is humiliating, horrifying, and traumatizing, (which is why bullies and abusers do it so much) it does not force your mind to do anything. You are still in control of your nervous system, you are still able to resist, even if in vain.After words it is done once the mind control is broken/the grapple is released/the body is raised. The target has control of themself again.
Whatever was done while the target was not in control of their hand, happened.
I really think that folks who think that isn't worse than physical violence are failing to conceptualize the experience.
Mind control would be more like the effects of long term entrapment in an abusive relationship or a program of reeducation, except done to you in a moment. I know people who have survived such situations, and most of them recognize their own trauma in mind control stories like season 1 of Jessica Jones.
Anyway, I should step away from this.
Mind control intersects with real world trauma pretty strongly, and the arguments I see in these discussions often resemble those I've heard from people who don't understand what is so traumatic about some pretty awful stuff that happens to people IRL. I'd consider a human trafficker to be even worse than a murderer IRL, or just as bad at the very least.