Word: duress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...might be noted that there are many conscientious objectors to work. However, in our individual and unfeeling economic system, such objectors of a rule are compelled under the duress of starvation to violate their conscience to the extent of earning the essential bread of life. In Germany, where the control of the state is more strict, such objectors might be put in pauper institutions. In the Cannibal Islands, where (they say) the control of the state is less strict, objectors to war might be forced to the alternative of entering either the army or the tribal soup kettle...