• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        According to libs, it’s only coercion if the state makes it illegal. Anything else is “the consequences of your decision and therefore your fault.” I have been unironically told this by more than one.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          11 months ago

          I got told by a liberal once that coercion doesn’t exist unless someone physically manipulates your hands and feet like a puppet. Even someone pointing a gun at you isn’t coercion because you can apparently just choose to die. I don’t know where these people come from.

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            11 months ago

            They are referring to Sartre’s belief in the concept of ‘radical freedom’. Sartre, whom would infamously with his partner, sleep with his college age female students and then abandon them when he got bored with them. Look, as much fun as we make of the old ‘power dynamics’ conversation, there are areas where than absolutely comes into play.