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Re: Winning conflicts

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From: Richard Marken
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00
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[From Rick Marken (990505.1550)]

Bill Powers (990505.911 MDT)--

Beautiful post!

> If you eliminate the question of whether _you_ might have
> done something bad, seeing how irrelevant that is to the truth,
> then you can admit having coerced others without needing to
> commit suidice to say you're sorry. And you can accept a
> simple conception (mine) of what coercion is, and get on
> with something more interesting.

The something more interesting being, in my opinion, alternatives
to coercion. How do we deal with people who are "mis-behaving"
without using coercion?  We can't start answering this question
until we can recognize when we are using coercion and when
we are not.

Best

Rick
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