I am only trying to give an example to better explain my initial question. I'm trying to help you understand the fundamental nature of how I am seeing your appraisal of control in context to humans. I'm coming from a mindset that looks at anything, from an avatar, to a list of things you are "interested in" as nothing more than external objects. I don't see anything humanistic about being forced into controlling your behavior and having freedom taken away from you for not adhering to the person forcing your hand. Unless you believe we are in a constant state of controlling and being controlled.

If you don't want something so vague, fine:

I was stigmatized in a Greek society at a university, mostly due to my actions and how they generated a lot of attention. I loved shredding on the piano, dancing like no one was watching, goofing around, and asking a lot of questions. Let's just stick to the piano though:

I would play the piano. I absolutely love improvising. This would catch the attention of females. Now, I've been playing the piano for nearly all my life, and I do not play the piano fundamentally because I love the attention. When, on a nightly basis, a crowd of women would eventually surround the piano, a few things would happen. One thing led to another and I was cut off. I was turned into an object, as nothing more than a mass manipulator of others. I was marshaled, like a dog, into shutting my soul up. I was punished, I had my freedoms taken away from me. Eventually. I started getting so sick that I was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and subjected to a cocktail of soul sucking, identity killing drugs. But I'll tell you, it was a lot easier to accept the world as black and white on anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, and amphetamine salts.

Now I am back in the environment I came from, afraid to walk out the front door half of the time. I have been utterly shredded by the controls within my own mind, both fabricated, and cultivated out of my own psyche.

So, would it be dehumanizing for me to remove the externalities which are controlling my own mind, specifically the ones that are controlling the way I perceive things. In this case, like someone's avatar, or what they are "interested" in?