Sentences with phrase «coercion on»

Impact of Sexual Coercion on Romantic Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults.

Québec solidaire's proposal would only ban the wearing of visible religious signs by persons in authority, such as judges, prosecutors, police officers, prison guards and others who exercise coercion on behalf of the state.

Due to their failing miserably in winning the actual science debate, they turn to coercion on those whom disagree.

So there is no real issue of any coercion on the part of developers.

Fordham did not lift a finger to object to this federal coercion on standards, so why would we believe their new - found conviction that all of this should «be completely voluntary for states»?

As someone who works a difficult job in Ulster County, NY and therefore deals with manipulation, emotional blackmail, victim complexes, entitlement, personality disorders, histrionics, lying, projecting, hypocrisy and coercion on a daily basis, let me give my experienced view.

This limitation, however, will arise merely from your standing in relation to another person, not necessarily from any act of coercion on their part.

Articulating the answer is crucial, because today there are growing threats of coercion on both sides, and the secularism that refuses to recognize the proper civic roles of religious members of society gives rise to religious reactionaries that reject the moral legitimacy of democratic society.

This is why God sometimes approves of (lures us toward) coercion on the human level even though such coercive power would never be used by God even if it were available.

Hence, what Hare and Madden seem to expect from a loving God is a more direct and bold use of coercion on his part in controlling certain low - level aims and desires in the interest of the higher level.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds, that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.

Not exact matches

To truly get your people to buy into your vision (instead of doing it with fear and coercion), you need to capture their attention and play on the heartstrings of what motivates them.

Worse is when they believe that on account of their success, they are superior and thus have a moral duty to impose their views on others, including by government coercion.

A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.

In his talk he shows how cryptocurrencies can pave the way to a free society based on voluntary exchange rather than on coercion and force.

In case you missed it last week, Mark Signorelli over at Front Porch Republic has posted further thoughts on the recent Joe Carter - Jerry Salyer debate, though this time the focus is on authority and coercion in legitimate government.

This government was founded and based on Christian principles but firmly defends your right to believe as you will or not believe at all with no coercion or retribution forthcoming.

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Indeed, Gottlieb enthusiastically underscores how Mendelssohn's support for religious pluralism «is appropriate to life in a cosmopolitan, diverse society,» applauding his theologically based opposition to any kind of religious coercion and his emphasis on how religious beliefs promote «individual flourishing.»

AFFIRM HEREBY that such cooperation must be based on a «Common Word,» requiring that such cooperation must go beyond mutual tolerance and respect, to providing full protection for the rights and liberties to all religious groups in a civilized manner that eschews coercion, bias, and arrogance.

«The politically correct left now relies far more on coercion than persuasion or moral appeal.

A minister is obliged to use persuasion, coercion, and even physical restraint if necessary to save a person bent on suicide.

Furthermore, it's hard to believe such obedience is anything but the product of coercion given it is flanked on one side by a promise of reward and on the other by a threat of punishment.

The forms of legal coercion such as laws against bigamy, age limits for consent to marriage, the husband's moral economic obligations to support the wife, and so on are the province of the community as a whole.

Insofar as freedom can not be so defined, a proscription on external coercion requires a substantive principle or norm of social action.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

I've also witnessed the coercion Wollstonecraft describes: teenaged girls being dragged into the Planned Parenthood on Bleecker Street by fathers, mothers, or boyfriends; an eighteen - year - old who left home because her parents threatened to kick her out if she didn't abort.

Sexual acts are to be judged in the same way all other acts are to be judged: on the basis of whether they promote flourishing and avoid harm and coercion.

I can understand why you think it must be a choice or coercion of somekind, your world view is dependant on it.

Such a God is strong on coercion and weak in terms of persuasion.

I have been trying to imagine what a «pansexualist» utopia would be like if absolutely all taboos on sexual activity were removed except those involving injury, exploitation, coercion, and the like.

God's use of persuasion, as opposed to omnipotent coercion, which is so often attributed to God, is not based on a voluntary self - limitation.

The anarchist component of his thought lay in the high value he placed on each individual human life and his opposition to coercion.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

On the other hand, man too is active, but his activity is also in love; he responds freely to the love which is given him and in that response he knows that he is truly «being himself», for he was intended by his creation to be a responding lover and in no sense a marionette pulled by strings manipulated by God — certainly not the victim of the divine coercion.

I'm an atheist and I am not at all terrified - unlike unthinking Christians who base their entire lives and behaviors on terror and coercion froma book writted thousands of years ago my medieval men.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

More specifically, I want to discuss the following question: When, if ever, is it justifiable for a process theist to use, or condone the use of, coercion of this sort on the human level?

At the same time, the Free Exercise Clause safeguards the religious liberty of individuals, imposing a ban on coercion or discrimination by government.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

Almost all of their explicit discussions of divine coercion center on the question of whether God can coerce in the strong sense — i.e., whether God can totally divest another entity of all power of self - determination.

On the other hand, if the answer is yes — that is, if divine persuasion alone does not maximize human freedom to the extent that such persuasion and divinely approved human coercion does — then it is difficult to see why the process God would not use coercive power if this were an option.

John Cobb tells us that if coercion is defined as the unilateral imposition of one's desires on another, then «no society can exist without some measure of coercion» (PTT 106).

On the other hand, if process theists decide that God would coerce if this were possible, they establish a sound basis for the human use of coercion in some cases.

Process theists do not deny that coercion in this weaker sense occurs, at least on the human level.

Moreover, it certainly does create a strong theological justification for the type of coercion many process theists believe is necessary on the human level.

At the same time, it takes on board the important task of directly challenging some of the thinking which lies behind the violence and coercion associated with Islamist groups and Islamic states.