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But Gauthier argues that the initial position must have been arrived at non-coercively if compliance to the agreement is to be secured.— Contractarianism
Perhaps the most important is: what powers it is legitimate for a state, operating both coercively and in terms of incentives, to possess.— Paternalism
Nevertheless, to speak, as Basinger does, of a moral imperative to act coercively is tantamount, in the divine case, to demanding that the deity contravene the very laws that, according to traditional theism and process theism, it imposed in the first place.— Process Theism
And since the rules of any basic structure will be coercively enforced, often with serious penalties, the demand to justify the imposition of any particular set of rules intensifies further.— John Rawls
Of those who have argued that threats and offers can both be used coercively, David Zimmerman has been most prominent (Zimmerman, 1981; others who have argued offers can coerce include Frankfurt, 1988— Coercion
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