"I fully expect someone to target a company like this one day (to coerce a change in policy)," John Robb, author of Brave New War and a colleague of Vaidya, told me.
The bomb threat was widely condemned by area churches and the Arlington congregation released a statement saying it would not be intimidated, harassed, or coerced to change the way it practiced religion.
If health care professionals believe individuals are making autonomous choices, yet external pressures are implicitly shaping these decisions, the task of determining whether an individual is being coerced to change a trait becomes challenging and worthy of attention from an ethics standpoint.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to prepare retaliatory measures against the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union to coerce Russia to change its policies in Ukraine.
The EU has struggled to find ways to pressure these central European nations to fall in line with the bloc's policymakers in Brussels, as threats of sanctions or even removing of voting rights have failed to coerce them to change their tack.
If a "friend" tries to coerce you to change your mind and you're quite adamant that you still want to leave, this person is not a true friend.
We are seeing a partial but important shift from directed and even coerced land-use change to drive larger social and political projects, to land-use change now being driven by larger political economic forces.
Furthermore, if clinicians try to coerce people into making lifestyle changes to improve their (future) health, lifestyle changes that threaten fulfilment of their life goals, then this may lead to tensions in, and potentially, breakdown of the healthcare relationship.
They point out that those trying to coerce Democrats to accept critical changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) don't have an end-game plan to avoid a costly defeat and lack a positive message, offering only opposition and obstruction.
Changing the rules and coercing participants to accept such changes will inevitably lead to confusion and perverse incentives, while undermining contracts.
