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Coercion is the enemy of reason

“What do you have against coercion?”

“What do you have against gentle coercion?”

It is not about prophesying future harm, it is about right now

Coercion is irrational

“Is coercion always wrong?”

“Surely coercion is ok when the parent is right and the child is wrong?”

“If you are not coercing your child, what do you do instead of coercion?”

A common form of double-binding coercion

“If I am not allowed to coerce my child, surely I am being coerced myself?”

Coercion of adults vs. coercion of children

Coercion impairs children’s ability to reason

Coercion punishes children for reasoning

“Surely it is cruel not to coerce children into good choices, or they will regret their choices later?”

“Children want to be coerced”

Children’s coping strategies in the face of coercion

Punishment as a teaching tool

Coerciveness vs non-coerciveness

Coerced to change their values

The satin-slipper-shod coercion is worse than the riding roughshod coercion

“Why not say that the policy is non-coercion except on important issues?”

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