Sentences with phrase «coercion if»

And recently, the rising popularity of IUDs and implants — methods that are long - acting and highly effective — have sparked concerns that excitement around the methods could take a turn toward coercion if policymakers or providers try to incentivize their use.16, 17

Andrews says that «voluntarily» providing such access to employers «is coercion if you need a job.»

Indeed it is, in the sense that it wants to reorganise the world around its principles, by force and coercion if necessary.

Not exact matches

If there is any slight sniff of coercion, control, manipulation, expectation, judgement or condemnation in a community, then something is terribly wrong.

If they are all adults... by that I mean 21 or older, and are consensual... for all parties free of coercion and trhreats... If the «marriage and home and children» are happy and well cared for... why should we care...???

The superman deity uses Basinger's coercionb, and he must realize that the disembodied God of classical theism can, if he is actually able, only coerce in the strong sense (coercion.).

If we understand creatio ex nihilo, the Incarnation, miracles, and the Last Judgment in orthodox ways, then these doctrines seem to require divine coercion..

You are assuming that if God revealed itself, it would automatically force all of humanity to adopt belief under no force or coercion.

However good our intentions, if we resort to the use of coercion or manipulation we have transgressed the Gospel ethic.

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

The prominent Georgia pastor being sued for sexual coercion by four men will face his accusers in court next summer if the cases can not be settled through mediation before then.

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.

Granting this does not mean, however, that churchly legal systems that function generally in close analogy to worldly structures of polity, even if indeed lacking police and means of physical coercion, are appropriate.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

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.

If they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisteIf they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisteif through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.

If we must use coercion, then let us know that we are doing so; let us admit honestly that insofar as this is done we are not obeying the perfect divine will; let us recognize that at best the use of such force is a pis - aller, not the entirely right thing.

Society must strive for justice, even if it is forced to use means, such as self - assertion, resistance, coercion, and perhaps resentment, which can not gain the moral sanction of the most sensitive and moral spirit.

The State must avoid coercion, but not necessarily if religious freedom is being misused to disturb public peace or undermine public morality.

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?

If we assume, as we presently do, that the primary goal of both God and concerned humans is to maximize freedom (creativity) for the greatest number, it is the following query with which we must be concerned: Do continuous divine persuasion and occasional human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alone?

W. Widick Schroeder observes that if coercion is defined as «the capacity to act in ways violating others,» then «persuasion and coercion interplay in any human community» (PPT 70).

If they decide it would not, they retain a strong basis for claiming that persuasion is morally (and possibly even practically) superior to coercion.

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.

Thus, since they believe that God is ultimate perfection, it might seem that they would uniformly deny that the process God would use any form of coercion, even if such coercion were possible.

But if process theists really do believe that some coercion would not only be preferable but required at the divine level if it were possible, then it appears that they must also acknowledge that the God of process theism would coerce 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).

If God would use coercive power if it were available, then there are, in principle, times when divine persuasion plus divine coercion would bring about more worthwhile resultIf God would use coercive power if it were available, then there are, in principle, times when divine persuasion plus divine coercion would bring about more worthwhile resultif it were available, then there are, in principle, times when divine persuasion plus divine coercion would bring about more worthwhile results.

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.

If God believes that some coercion is a useful and morally acceptable means of achieving a desired end, then there appears to be no reason why such coercive power would not be used if it were availablIf God believes that some coercion is a useful and morally acceptable means of achieving a desired end, then there appears to be no reason why such coercive power would not be used if it were availablif it were available.

Since human coercion has absolutely no intrinsic value within a process system (in fact, is an intrinsic evil), it would appear that if divine persuasion is maximally effective alone, process theists should be pacifists.

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.

Nevertheless the coercion is mitigated in that if he fails to give back, any punishment he would receive would also fall outside the fixed contractuality of law.

Is coercion acceptable if it is for the common good?

I think coercion is such a serious thing that if I didn't attend a church that valued love, authenticity, and community, I would leave the church forever and not look back — and I've been going to church for a long time (though I'm not as old nor as wrinkled as the naked pastor)!

Even God could not apply enough coercion as extrinsic motivation to secure a right choice if it were a morally responsible free choice.

You can't spell, you can't think, and your ignorance suggests that you never spent a day in uniform (McDonald's doesn't count) If you were a veteran, you would understand the implicit (and explicit) coercion inherent in this situation.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

If there is real morally responsible freedom, no amount of coercion, could secure desired results.

Persuasion and coercion stand in tension, but the same God can apply both if he is primarily conceived of as a king exercising his royal authority.

At the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit in October, put on by the Women's March organizers, Herndon - De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, asked «if there was room in their campaign for women who might regret their abortions, say if it was done out of coercion, or if that counted as reinforcing stigma.»

Coercion and threatening people with prison if they don't give is not a Christian value.

Indeed, as the history of the past three decades has shown, it is today's devotees of «negative liberty» as reinterpreted by postmodern radical skeptics and relativists who are the primary exponents of coercion in the name of «tolerance» and «diversity» — even if that coercion is mediated through split decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

If some who object to abortion work to diminish the number of unwanted, inappropriate pregnancies, or to make bearing a child for adoption by persons able to be its loving foster parents more attractive than it now is, and do this with a minimum of coercion, all honor to them.

If you are being bullied or abused in the name of religion, if you suffer the heavy yoke of legalistic rules and authoritarian church leadership, Jesus is calling you out of that life and into a new one, where the fruit of the Spirit isn't coercion or fear, but rather love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - controIf you are being bullied or abused in the name of religion, if you suffer the heavy yoke of legalistic rules and authoritarian church leadership, Jesus is calling you out of that life and into a new one, where the fruit of the Spirit isn't coercion or fear, but rather love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - controif you suffer the heavy yoke of legalistic rules and authoritarian church leadership, Jesus is calling you out of that life and into a new one, where the fruit of the Spirit isn't coercion or fear, but rather love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control.

Many of those couples say the charges of coercion of birth mothers are overblown and that thousands of abandoned children will be condemned to a life of poverty if greater restrictions on adoptions are imposed.

In fact, adoptions can be legally overturned if they're shown to have been made through the use of coercion, incentives or fraud.

The Natural Child offers a consistent and compelling approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child, without resort to coercion or manipulation, simply by following the Parenting Golden Rule: «Treat your child as you would like to be treated if you were in the same position.»

A woman choosing place of birth is autonomous if she receives all relevant information on available choices, risks and benefits, is capable of understanding and processing the information and choosing place of birth in the absence of coercion, provided she intends no harm to others and is accountable for the outcome.