Deloria says, ‘it is difficult to understand why Western peoples believe they are so clever. Any damn fool can treat a living thing as if it were a machine and establish conditions under which it is required to perform certain functions—all that is required is a sufficient application of brute force. The result of brute force is slavery’
Reminds me of a quote from Kant about not treating people as a means to an end.
"So act that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means"