The of the coercionIt is a very common practice in our society and it consists of the imposition of a punishment, legal or illegal, with the mission of modifying the behavior of a person in a certain situation. That is, it is intended that a person or a group change a decision or that they carry out this or that act, then, they are pressured through some method, which as we said could be legal or illegal, so that they finally do what they want..
The threat of physically harming someone is one of the most common forms of coercion and it falls within what we call illegal coercion, since we agree that no law threatens someone with killing them, hitting them, among other acts.
However, and beyond this, the threat is one of the most effective that exists when it comes to intimidating another and finally getting the threatened person to change their way of thinking or do what they want.
Consider an armed robbery, the thief points his gun at his victim and forces her to hand over all his belongings. He tells him that if he doesn't, he will shoot him with the gun. Naturally, both the weapon and the specific threat of irreparable harm make the victim agree to that request and end up handing over their personal belongings to the offender.
Coercion with a weapon or any other type of device is always more effective and ends up achieving the task.
And the coercion of a legal type is one that is derived from precisely the very same regulations in force in a state of law.
If a law says that if I kill someone I am imprisoned for such a long time, it will cause many to dismiss that action because they will not want to be deprived of their freedom for a second. That is, knowing that if I do this or that thing I will be punished, generates, in most of society, fear of committing such acts because they know that the full weight of the law will fall on them.
