for fear of being overly utilitarian here its not really an issue that people are manipulatable but that they are manipulated into doing the wrong things (consu

for fear of being overly utilitarian here its not really an issue that people are manipulatable but that they are manipulated into doing the wrong things (consumerism, political divide-and-conquer strategies) and rejecting manipulation from a deontological stance reduces agency and output for doing good in the real world manipulation = campaigns = advertisements = psyops (all the same, different connotations)