Re: How do you spell coercion?

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From: Bruce Gregory
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:00

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[From Bruce Gregory (990429.1245 EDT)

Rick Marken (990429.0920)
>
> Bruce Gregory (990429.1200 ED)
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> > Is this a discussion about models or a vocabulary test?
>
> It's a question (not a test) about vocabulary, of course.
> Bill (and I) would like to know what word you use to refer
> to one person using force or the credible threat thereof to
> control another person's behavior?

You are playing a game here, and a not very nice one. How would you like
to be asked in Germany in 1936 "What do you call a person who has one
Jewish grandparent?" Would you call a mother who pulls her child from
the path of an oncoming car "a coercive parent"? Or all governments
coercive? Your demand for ideological purity takes you down strange
paths. But then again this is true of all demands for ideological
purity.



Bruce Gregory

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