March 22, 2025

Moral philosophers have often focussed on four moral principles that are interrelated: domination, degradation, exploitation and oppression. How those concepts interrelate explains the results, where social explanations leave unanswered questions.

Domination is the basis of all corruption; but it requires the other three factors. To dominate requires degradation, exploitation and oppression.

But more basic than those four interacting elements of corruption is the use of force. Corruption is moving out of the reality medium and into a force medium. Corrupters don't understand the difference, while they assume force is needed to get what they want.

The need for force is explained by the four interacting tools of corruption. To dominate requires degradation, because achieving superiority is inherent in the purpose, while corrupters cannot really make themselves superior. So they degrade to put others below themselves instead of making themselves better.

Exploitation is needed to gain anything, or even to survive the process, since the mechanisms are destructive. That means someone else must have previously created something of value to latch onto as something of worth in addition to a source of power.

Oppression might seem unnecessary; but it has a psychological element; and corruption is entirely a psychological process designed to make corrupters feel more secure with their incompetence. Oppression also gets objectionable persons farther out of view, because corrupters assume they are what they associate with—lacking inherent worth of their own.

Force can only be defined in terms of its result, which is that it conflicts with and destroys realities. Lies are the primary method of destroying realities, though they are not generally viewed as forces but as variable realities. They are not actually realities but forces.

The definition of reality is the configuration of any substance. It includes the configuration of spirit substance which takes the form of perception and memories.

A lie is not an actual configuration, because it doesn't exist someplace. It is a disruption of thought processes as a force generated by misrepresenting actual realities. It disrupts as a force, which is a mechanism for prevailing.

So the simplest description of domination is, to use force and violence to prevail against other persons. Corrupters assume they can solve their problems by prevailing against other persons; but there is no constructive element to the processes. It is nothing but a feel-good reaction which has no element of constructivity to it; while the required force destroys realities.