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Comment author: owencb 09 March 2015 10:46:24PM 0 points [-]

Note that you can potentially trade with counterfactuals that aren't strongly symmetric. You can trade with a counterfactual where the person who is your slave is in a position of power over you, even if that's not an owner/slave relationship.