[1] At one point I considered something similar to this—the view was something like “If you had some way to 100% reliably persuade someone of whatever you wanted, that would be mind control and hence unethical. However, the use of normal methods of persuasion aside from the facts is just a less reliable form of mind control, and therefore immoral.”
This excerpt from Stanislaw Lem’s “The Twenty-First Voyage” (part of the Star Diaries) is an exploration of more or less this concept.
This excerpt from Stanislaw Lem’s “The Twenty-First Voyage” (part of the Star Diaries) is an exploration of more or less this concept.