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Returning to law's coercive aspect, there are several issues entangled here, and we should carefully separate them.
Even within the legal positivist tradition, however, the coercive aspect of the law has given rise to fierce controversies.
It is arguable, however, that law's functions in our culture are more closely related to its coercive aspect than Hart seems to have assumed.
This conspicuous feature of law made it very tempting for some philosophers to assume that the normativity of law resides in its coercive aspect.
Barry Whitney argues that there is a coercive aspect of God's power in process theism insofar as the laws of nature are the result of a divine decision that no creature is free to abrogate (Whitney 1985, 99 114).
Solving recurrent and multiple coordination problems, setting standards for desirable behavior, proclaiming symbolic expressions of communal values, resolving disputes about facts, and such, are important functions which the law serves in our society, and those have very little to do with law's coercive aspect and its sanction-imposing functions.
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How can you, as a presumably sane person, use the Nazi death camps as a metaphor for the more coercive aspects of the fashion industry?
Be this as it may, we should probably refrain from endorsing Austin's or Kelsen's position that law's only function in society is essentially tied to its coercive aspects.
Despite substantial interest in the coercive aspects of ACT, no studies have focused specifically on understanding the phenomenology of the use and experience of leverage in ACT.
Consequently, care planning was associated with strong links to coercive aspects of the Mental Health Act and a lasting agenda about control.
Non-coercive aspects of counter-terrorism began under the Howard government, before the term CVE gained currency. it officially became part of Australia's counter-terrorism approach under the first Rudd government, and became most prominent with the building community resilience grants scheme, which began under the Gillard government and ran from 2010 to 2014.
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