Comments on: Coercion as an impediment to success http://www.memeverse.com/2009/03/10/coercion-as-an-impediment-to-success/ One mind as an universe of ideas. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.memeverse.com/2009/03/10/coercion-as-an-impediment-to-success/comment-page-1/#comment-703 admin Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:23:25 +0000 http://www.memeverse.com/?p=228#comment-703 Great majority of all human interaction in fact does not include coercion and is instead completely voluntary. If this wasn't so there would likely be chaos on the streets and no defense agent, arbiter or "police" would be able to establish order. They themselves would consistently strive to coerce. Instead the concept of reciprocity and trade is pretty much second nature to most people. Romantic and friendly relationships are voluntary. Business relationships are voluntary. The only relationships which consistently and by their very nature are not voluntary are political ones. And the reason such coercion is accepted is partly because people either never actually think about the nature of these relationships and partly because they've been taught and convinced to believe that without this kind of coercion there would somehow be more rather than (obviously) less violence. Which is of course a myth and a self-contradictory concept. Great majority of all human interaction in fact does not include coercion and is instead completely voluntary. If this wasn’t so there would likely be chaos on the streets and no defense agent, arbiter or “police” would be able to establish order. They themselves would consistently strive to coerce.

Instead the concept of reciprocity and trade is pretty much second nature to most people. Romantic and friendly relationships are voluntary. Business relationships are voluntary. The only relationships which consistently and by their very nature are not voluntary are political ones. And the reason such coercion is accepted is partly because people either never actually think about the nature of these relationships and partly because they’ve been taught and convinced to believe that without this kind of coercion there would somehow be more rather than (obviously) less violence.

Which is of course a myth and a self-contradictory concept.

]]> By: David Uitenbroek http://www.memeverse.com/2009/03/10/coercion-as-an-impediment-to-success/comment-page-1/#comment-702 David Uitenbroek Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:01:49 +0000 http://www.memeverse.com/?p=228#comment-702 You have made a valid point. Why then, is coercion so widely used? You have made a valid point. Why then, is coercion so widely used?

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