MLK and Gandhi well understood that, in Gandhi's words, "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind," but that non-violent means of defying the coercive power confronting them was necessary for emancipation.
So, Lamond argues, the law's authorization of coercive means is what makes it coercive, "irrespective of who is to carry them out" (Lamond 2000: p. 40).
Communitarianism... in its aversion to individualism and its advocacy of coercive means of fostering human association, is another form of collectivism.
Excuses will not be of any help The overwhelming emphasis on coverage results in the use of coercive means to achieve targets.
The acrimony intensified when an interview with Dr. Klausner in The Washington Monthly discussed coercive means of preventing H.I.V., including quarantining infected men who repeatedly have unprotected sex, without mentioning that neither he nor the San Francisco health department advocated those methods.
The existence of such an ordering force has a significant effect on the ability of other agents in society to use and to detect specific uses of coercion, as well as other, non-coercive means of getting people to do things.
When you're given abundant training in the use of force, but little in using psychology, body language, and other non-coercive means of resolving a conflict, you'll naturally gravitate toward using force.
The ICRC [2005] CIHL study and RS Art. 7. 2. (d), further, forbids the use of coercive acts, direct, and indirect means, which may cause the displacement.
It is instead based upon the claims above that a rightful condition requires the centralizing of coercive power in a state as the only means of bringing about reciprocal coercion and obligation.
