Word: coercion
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...rabbits and that they, regrettably, must suffer for their lack of foresight and self-discipline. The sight of the over-burdened earth moves these "crisis environmentalists" to advocate tough policies: positive and negative monetary incentives, rationing of children, sterilizing materials in the water supplies and compulsory abortion. Acknowledging that coercion diminishes freedom and is especially hard on the poor, these crisis environmentalists admit that the metaphor of an overcrowded lifeboat is a harsh one, requiring harsh ethics, but that it is "the basic metaphor within which we must work out our solutions," in the words of Mr. Garrett Hardin, author...
...food crisis is immense, yet a real solution can not resort to coercion and callousness. Man need not be seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...
Aloni left Rabin's Labor Alignment coalition last year, partly in protest over the inclusion of Mafdal in the coalition. "We have religious coercion that effects legislation," she says. "The religious community can worship however it wants, but it shouldn't force me to do the same in a secular state...
...with the African's love for his ancestral land and his sense of independence. In the beginning, the government advocated the establishment of ujamaa (cooperative) villages on a more or less voluntary basis. But last year no fewer than 3 million people were moved-some willingly, some by coercion-from their own admittedly inefficient individual plots to communal villages. The result is that farm production has fallen at a time when Tanzania desperately needs increased agricultural output...
...Coercion...