Sentences with phrase «more coercion»

And it's more coercion then anything.

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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.

Whenever Christians engage in coercion in the name of their faith and dogma, their actions somehow seem more reprehensible than those of other people doing the same thing.

When one reads the tradition with this sensitivity, one also finds that many theologians have emphasized persuasion and the human responsibility persuasion calls into being, far more than coercion.

We'll see more parties enlisting courts in the unfolding coercion, by deploying the perfectly tailored concept of dignitary harm: the pain of being told by others that your choices are immoral.

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

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

There are many cases in which persuasion is a far more effective and abiding form of control than is coercion.

The subtle as well as the more obvious techniques of persuasion, coercion and legal controls are part of the functioning of morality.

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.

who have to make their way through the theology and politics of persuasion more than coercion.

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?

But it is only for God that persuasion always has more worthwhile results than coercion (DR 154).

Thus, only God can insure that persuasion will be maximally effective, and only constant maximal persuasion is more effective than coercion.

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 results.

It is in a sense prepolitical, but without it the state would be little more than a mechanism of coercion.

One corollary of this view is that creativity in human relationship can never be the sheer imposition of one will upon another, It must be the kind of action, with whatever coercion is involved, which so far as possible leaves the other more free to respond.

More than 70 percent of the world now lives with some form of religious coercion.

We probably have more experience with the characteristics of destructive conflict: secrecy, threats, coercion and bluffs, misperception and miscommunication, unbridled competition in which one party tries to destroy, injure, or control the other (s) and in which one party gains only at the other's expense.

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

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.

The Abrahamic religions spread by the sword during the Middle Ages (the «dark» ages) and the colonial era, and by psychological coercion (evangelism) since force became outlawed by a more civil society.

Not that it takes much coercion because I love them just as much as (probably more than) the next -LSB-...]

Removing laws and stigmas against it will allow true victims of domestic violence, coercion, etc. to get help as they and their witnesses will be more forthcoming with law enforcement.

At other times, maybe we also need these resources to help extricate ourselves from situations that may involve our use, inadvertent or planned, of more or less hostility, rejection and coercion.

TRUTH: Infant adoption is an industry in which young unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded - through force, coercion or outright lies - to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples (and sometimes also single people), and usually strangers.

What is more important is the overall philosophy of AP, you know, responding to your infant and toddler, not using coercion or punishment, being respectful, treating kids like they are the humans they are.

Veterans of the last debate think most of these would be won over by a more subtle argument against right - to - die: the fear of coercion.

In more recent centuries it was held that there were other reasons as well, mainly that it placed limits on the use of coercion and police abuse, and forced courts to look at evidence more than possibly unreliable confessions.

«With less than three coercive controls on average per police authority, more needs to be done so that people can involve the police at an early stage before coercion turns into physical abuse.»

Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN)- There may be more victims in the case against 81 year old Robert Kendzia, a Niagara Falls pharmacist accused of coercion.

Any attempt to apply coercion will result in more brain wave disorganization, from stress if nothing else, and produce even worse computer performance.»

Girls indicated more frequent digital sexual coercion victimization, and girls and boys reported equal rates of digital monitoring and control, and digital direct aggression.

Sexual coercion has been shown to be about five times more common among male perpetrators, but we mustn't forget, in our efforts to end sexual violence, that this is an issue that affects male victims, too.

... We're definitely under more pressure and can feel the dragon waiting hungrily for results, micromanaging our projects and — indirectly — our lives, squeezing the breath out of their students by tyranny or coercion.

The team found that when scientists write about sexual conflict, they frequently describe males with active words («intimidate,» «coercion»), reserving more reactive words for females («resistance,» «avoidance»).

Your website, your information, and your products will feel more legitimate than they do when couched in mystery, fear, and coercion.

«The idea is that coercion results in a cycle where we respond to our partners in ways that make things better in the short term, but in doing so, it makes them more problematic in the long term,» he continued.

On one level a genre mash - up revelling in influences as diverse as John Carpenter, Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives, it also ambitiously holds a mirror up to the history of modern America, confronting not overt racism (that would be too easy, not to mention predictable) but a more insidious narrative of coercion and white supremacy whose legacy stretches back across the generations.

To succeed it requires more centralized coercion than is possible (or desirable) under our current political system and more coercive than organized educators will allow.

Uses coercion and pressure (perhaps physical, but more likely peer or psychological) to compel adherence to rules and network standards.

So, for example, we would prefer to find our teachers falling more on the side of freedom and equality than of censorship, coercion, and inequality.

However, he stressed that «coercion is unnecessary», since every HMC school already partners with one or more state schools and offers support

And the more Amazon uses coercion and retaliation as means of negotiation, the more it looks to be restraining competition.

Coercion should make the government more lenient on payback terms.

I believe he will be hurt if he says nothing more, without government coercion.

While our trainer knows it, many of our men could advocate that aggression leads to more aggression, and that wielding force, fear, coercion, impulsive tendencies and other aversive behaviors is what yielded this negative consequence.

In his 2004 publication Soft Power Joseph Nye asserts that, «Seduction is always more effective than coercion, and many values like democracy, human rights, and individual opportunities are deeply seductive.»

If government managers were accused of sexual harassment, perhaps with the knowledge of political appointees, the distinction between ordinary scientific debate and managerial coercion might be more clear.

And that the very science that supports more state coercion of society in the field of climate, is all paid for by the state itself.