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Against coercion
β What do you have against coercion?
π§π» Coercion of adults vs. coercion of children
π§ If you are not coercing your child, what do you do instead of coercion?
πΏ Surely coercion is ok when the parent is right and the child is wrong?
π₯Ά βIf you do X, I will give you Yβ
𧩠What do you have against gentle coercion?
π€ Is the purpose of taking children seriously to avoid the harm coercion would do?
π Coerced to change their values
π€’ Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?
π³ Punishment as a teaching tool
π€¦π»ββοΈ If I am not allowed to coerce my child, surely I am being coerced myself?
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