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[From Tim Carey (990505.06100]


>[From Bill Powers (990504.1204 MDT)]


>Then how about this: If the program I adopt relative to other people calls
>for me to win every conflict, and use as much force as necessary on other
>people to get my way, couldn't we call this an inherently coercive approach
>to other people?

Perfect. I know of some people I would describe in precisely this way.

Certainly it's possiblo, by some extremely unlikely
>combination of circumstances, that I would use this approach on another
>person who just happens to want my effects on him to be exactly what they
>are, so closely that I can see no error at all to correct, but I don't
>think that would happen often enough to worry about. We're talking about
>what it takes to make a person into a bully, aren't we? Weren't you
>interested in that subject at one time?


I still am interested in that Bill. But what we're talking about now is what
it takes to make an _individual_ into a coercer or a bully that to me sounds
very different from talking about a coercive _system_.

Thanks for the patience,

Cheers,

Tim