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At least one mechanism for this: witting application of force invites resistance, unwitting manipulation does no, leading to selection for ever subtler mechanisms of manipulation. In the limit, manipulators cannot see themselves as such, but have been selected into their roles.
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It also takes less effort or talent. Applying force takes strength and skill at aggression. Copying a behavior that seems to work without either allows sociopath behaviors to spread memetically across untalented populations.
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Whitehead. Manipulation operations definite.y count as important ones.
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