Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judaism, has received complaints of aggressive and unethical door-to-door solicitation by center teachers. In addition, some members report feeling squeezed for cash. "At the center, they say you can only make a difference when you give until it hurts," says the former devotee. Berg firmly denies any coercion at the center; cardiologist Artur Spokojny agrees, pointing out that he happily contributed $20,000 for a Torah scroll. "Giving is never something that I feel I have to do," he says. "If that were the case, I'd be outta there...
Which, of course, it was. The Justice Department, said Reno, "won't tolerate any coercion by dominant companies in any way that distorts competition...
...threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. For example, the threat to inflict pain can trigger fears more damaging than the immediate sensation of pain. In fact, most people underestimate their capacity to withstand pain. In general, direct physical brutality creates only resentment, hostility, and further defiance...
Take the kind of audience Franken is referring to and move it to the Sackler; now you have a fairly good picture of an objectivist audience. On taxation, the objectivist says, "Taxation is coercion," the listeners nod. On environmentalism: "Man is master over the environment," the people clap. On women's and Afro-American studies: "Pseudo-disciplines," the crowd does the wave...
...course, this tension also exists in the United State's own judicial system. But in contrast to Harvard's Ad Board, the government, operating on the premise that it is impossible to arrive at the truth fairly via coercion and secrecy, established civil liberties laws to protect citizens from the potential excess of the government. The Ad Board undeniably shares the potential for these excesses, given that it has substantial power to seriously damage students via probation, explusion and requirements to withdraw. But within its current system, Harvard has implicitly decreed that the Ad Board is not party to these...