Coercion

The case that I have chosen to write about is the very first on the list that we were given to choose from. Brown v. Mississippi that ultimately had the ruling of, “physical coercion violates the Fourth Amendment” (Becker, et al. p. 197). In this case, the defendants were charged with murdering an individual by the name of Raymond Stewart. Initially the confessions were admitted as evidence, the three men were convicted, and sentence of death passed. The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the…

obligation, the reasoning for most states surely must go beyond this. It would seem there are several key reasons states would willfully reduce their sovereignty by participating in international law. These reasons are: coercion, persuasion, and morality, or some combination of the three. Coercion, often called the realist approach is based on the discrepancy of power between the states of the word; there are weak states and strong states. The weak states are at the (hopefully righteous) will of…

Mappes lays out two ways in which this can happen, through deception and through coercion. Deception, not only includes lying or misrepresentation, but withholding information from a person. For example, if an individual discloses information that they have a sexually transmitted disease, for fear that the person they will have sexual interactions with would not give their voluntary informed consent. On the subject of coercion, Mappes notes that rape is one of the most vivid examples of the…

first condition for coercion and how Conly’s argument can be strengthened by adjusting the first condition for coercion so that it acknowledges the public sphere’s effects on understanding rape. Conly argues that verbal coercion can be used as a…

There is a thin line between torture, coercion, and persuasion. For some countries, torture is an adequate form of punishment used to not only instill fear, but to also show the consequences of prohibited actions to others. However, for the United States and other countries who have signed the Geneva Convention, torture is strictly prohibited, but is still practiced in different forms. The article “The Dark Art of Interrogation,” written by Mark Bowden, explores various interrogation techniques…

real restriction might come from the idea that although the lack of external coercion is accepted as necessary for freedom, coercion may also be internal. If individuals are affected by compulsion, addiction, irrational prejudices, or uncontrolled passions and if the choices they make are informed by ignorance, stupidity, manipulation, or propaganda, then they lack freedom as much as if they had experienced external coercion. Being free from external interference…

how is coercion justified within his account of the moral law. Kant argues that right should be understood as intrinsically connected with the justificatory nature of coercion where when one acts rightly, no legitimate basis exists for others to coerce them from engaging in the act. Instead, coercion obtains its legitimacy only when others do not act rightly, and then the coercion must be utilized in a way that is compatible with right with the intentions of re-establishing right. When coercion…

Why is the use of a placebo in medical research controversial? Controversy exists regarding using placebo in medical research can control groups in clinical trials when effective treatments exist. The controversy has centered on several issues. The first involves the methodological superiority of placebo-controlled trials of discerning treatment effects. Secondly, it is unclear whether the treatment effects encompass absolute treatment effects, including placebo effects or are confined to…

treated. Their lack of caring, fairness, and non- maleficence contradicts the foundation of this ethical theory. Specifically, Henrietta was denied the right to a voice in the decision of being a donor. The next ethical issue to be discussed is the coercion of Day, Henrietta’s husband, by doctors at Johns Hopkins. After Henrietta’s death, “ the way Day remembers it , someone frim Hopkins called to tell him Henrietta died, and to ask permission for an autopsy, and Day said no” (p.89). Later…

in the novel “The Book Thief”. In the novel, by Markus Zusak there are several significant moments that protrude to let the reader concentrate on the overall motif of indoctrination. Zusak portrays the motif of indoctrination through censorship, coercion, and discrimination of religion and ethnicity which is seen throughout the book. Amid the other two forms of indoctrination, censorship is seen constantly throughout “The Book Thief” in a variety of ways. One of the most…