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Coercion vs 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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