In other words, states coerce all those within their territorial boundaries whether or not these constituents have consented to this imposition; and, given this, they cannot invoke volenti and thus have no choice but to treat everyone coerced as equals.
In each case, the structure of the objection is quite similar: states coerce via invasion and espionage, via collective action through international institutions, and via border maintenance, therefore the international system is coercive in nature and, thus, appropriately calls for egalitarian distributive justice.
"Ferguson made it part of the national debate the way states coerce people into paying and deprive them of their livelihood," says Ciolfi.
Another view is that the state massively coerces individuals residing within its claimed jurisdiction and does not to the same extent massively coerce those outside its territorial borders.
Compellence, the ability of one state to coerce another state into action, usually by threatening punishment.
As far as convictions are concerned, neither church nor state can coerce; "for here," as noted earlier, "the state has no other means of acting effectively than the church does.
A different kind of argument in favor of universal access to a decent minimum of health care does not turn on support of general principles of justice (fair equality of opportunity, treating peoples as equals, or a right to a decent minimum of economic welfare), but rather on a pluralism of moral considerations plus an argument for state coordinated (coerced) beneficence (Buchanan 1984).
Government authority is experienced most acutely at the level of interpersonal interaction, in which certain agents are endowed with the power of the state to coerce certain citizens they deem deserving of heightened scrutiny.
But when we use the power of state to coerce business owners to act against their views, not only will they become more resentful to those they disagree with, but we also make ourselves vulnerable to slide down the slippery slope of censorship.
Legal scholar Ryan Calo argues that we need to watch out for "digital market manipulation" here -- where companies use your background, details, and emotional state to coerce you into buying products you don't need or paying higher prices than you normally would.
