coercion [Theme]

It was the ship of dreams to everyone else. To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains. Outwardly, I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.

Lies reign everywhere where there is a coercive regime. Prohibition and smuggling are inseparable from each other, both in love and in trade.

Each person has the right to be mistaken and not to understand the sage, who in this sense endows everyone with freedom, and only violence and coercion of tyranny with its unambiguity wins over the supporters of reason. Wise is not the one who prefers to sacrifice other people's lives, but the sage who sacrifices his own. For the sage, freedom and value are not in places, but everywhere. Where I would do so, I will liken others to myself.

The freedom of choice became so great that it gradually turned into coercion.

Look, just sign this stupid petition I don't have much time, you know ?!

If someone does not want his own happiness, then in other cases, coercion is also useful!

... states are systems through which coercion is carried out. Groups within a state can compete for loyalty by giving the appearance of democracy, but the founding of states is the systematic use and prevention of violence. Land ownership, property rights, annuities, dividends, taxation, court fines, censorship, copyrights, trademarks are all imposed under the threat of state violence.

To think that coercion and punishment are proper remedies is a barbarian feeling.

- What did they do to us? ..

There is a characteristic story about the behavior of a peasant, who himself admitted that the state power, meeting a willful person, must sometimes force him to order by strict, even sometimes despotic measures. In St. Petersburg in the spring ice melted on the Neva, and it became dangerous to cross the river on ice. The mayor ordered to put police officers on the banks of the Neva and prohibit the passage on the ice. Some peasant, in spite of the cries of the policeman, walked on the ice, fell through and began to drown. The policeman saved him from death, and the peasant, instead of gratitude, began to reproach him: "What are you looking at?" The policeman says to him: "I shouted at you." - “Shouted! I should have kicked it in the face! "

A law cannot be a law if there is no force above it that can enforce.

By the way, the upbringing and education of young people is essentially a conservative position. If you abandon it, there will be no upbringing or education. Because upbringing and education are coercion. It doesn't matter how it's organized. Or you are interested, or the rods. But the essence of the process is coercion.

As long as we ignore that a rule is an attempt to express or illustrate some value of our daily lives, there is a great risk that we will perceive it as an unfortunate compulsion.

Coercion is well known to us. We are closely acquainted with him. It is familiar, uncomfortable, but familiar. And here is freedom! She is new and arouses the fear of the unknown. After having cultivated a sense of duty or habit in us for generations, it is difficult to act in accordance with our choices and emotional impulse. But this is vital. In order for the world not to become insensitive, it is necessary that each of us has a spiritual impulse.