• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Well, like I said, even today, it is basically impossible to starve to death in the Western world. You can get your caloric needs met from charity programmes and government assistance alone. It requires you to sacrifice your dignity and accept a very low quality of life, but you will not die.

    So if coercion is defined as “forced to perform some action under threat of not having one’s biological needs met”, nobody is in fact coerced to do anything.