How can someone "own" you?

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How can someone own you?

Well my brother says he owns a lot of people in his computer game.

Or is that pown? *Sigh.*



I agree...I don't really get the idea of "owning" someone, it makes me think of slavery, and not the pleasant rose-tinted kind everyone thinks is so romantic.

Now I believe a husband and wife "own" each other in a sense. But with vows to each other and to God, not a written contract.