Antityranicals wrote:And for the chain bit, imagine that someone was literally physically connected to the house, skin to chain to house, in such a way that the only way the two could be disconnected would be by tearing the skin, or breaking the chain or house. Then what?
If you really want it to be more equivalent, the person would be plumbed into the house for nourishment, and thereby obtain food and water from the house via a tube, and the house would be alive and sentient.