Scans_Daily

It's an entirely fictional and sci-fi/fantasy based attack

Eh, not really. Actually reading someone's mind isn't possible in real life, no, but many of the control/distort things telepaths do in fiction are: altering someone's memory through hypnotism, drugs, etc; messing with someone's personality and priorities through psychological manipulation and/or torture; inflicting fear or hallucination or altering perception through drugs - these lack the precision and accuracy rate of sci fi telepathy, but they're still quite plausible. Examining the morality of that kind of activity through a close metaphorical lens, trying to find a way to accurately describe and codify just what it means for the person being manipulated and how that relates to other forms of human interaction, actually strikes me as one of the major purposes of genre fiction.