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persuasion with the safety off — a choice offered at gunpoint.
means The act of forcing someone to do something through threats, pressure, or intimidation, leaving them no real freedom to refuse.
from From Latin 'coercere,' to restrain or confine, built from 'co-' (together) and 'arcere' (to enclose, ward off) — the same 'arcere' that gives us 'ark' as a box and the idea of fencing something in. The original sense was physically hemming someone in; over time the cage became metaphorical, and 'coercion' came to mean the pressure that pens a person into a single choice. It entered English by way of Old French in the late Middle Ages.
- legal void
- Contracts signed under it are voidable everywhere
- latin root
- From coercere, to restrain or fence in
- duress defense
- Can excuse crimes committed under credible threat
- soft form
- Economic pressure counts, no weapon needed
standoff in waco texas — atf siege of branch davidian compound in 1993, involving negotiated surrender under pressure
chinese uyghur detention — mass internment camps in xinjiang forcing labor and cultural assimilation since 2017