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 (990429.1337 EDT)]

Rick Marken (990429.1020)
>
> > Would you call a mother who pulls her child from the path of an
> > oncoming car "a coercive parent"?
>
> No. But I would call what she is doing to the child "coercion".

Fine. We agree. All of us at one time or another have acted coercively.
Some of us may even act coercively in the future. Coercion describes an
act; it is not a label to be applied to a person or a program. The word
contains no hint of moral or other opprobrium, it is pure descriptive.
Let's end on this happy note.


Bruce Gregory

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