"It is important that we have a trial that goes forward without evidence gathered under situations of coercion or torture," said Susan F. Hirsch, whose husband, Abdulrahman Abdalla, was killed in the Tanzania attack.
Many however are here legally and fall into forced labour situations because of coercion, deceit and manipulation.
However, one can imagine a similar situation in which the agent of "coercion" is not another person.
The material also included accounts of positive experiences of coercive treatment and descriptions of situations where coercion seemed inevitable.
We purposely only generally described 'ethical challenge' by using words like 'ethical dilemmas', 'ethical problems', 'ethical issues', 'situations that caused a discussion or disagreement within the team or where you were concerned or uncertain about the right use of coercion' or 'difficult situations'.
But this suggests an objection to this view of coercion's wrongfulness: there are some situations in which the coerciveness of an action appears obvious even though it may be difficult or impossible to ascertain its rightfulness or wrongfulness (this objection goes doubly for the next proposal, viz., that coercion is prima facie or pro tanto wrongful).
In every situation when coercion is considered, the dignity of the patient is at risk.
One participant described a situation in which coercion had been used.
Some accounts of coercion apply a moralized test to the coercee's situation, holding that one may avoid responsibility for an act taken under coercion if the coercer's proposal is such that one "is entitled to yield to [the coercer's] proposal and then be released from the normal moral and legal consequences of [one's] act" (Wertheimer 1987, 267).
The UNICEF supported trafficking study of 2009 reports prevalence of such practices including examples of coercion of young girls and boys into exploitative situations, deception by means of false promises of recreation, employment, education, shelter, care, and religious fulfilment.
'The reason why I asked how often you discuss the justifications for the possible use of coercion is because I think it's easier to take part in situations that feel ethically challenging if you understand their background'.
