coercively
Adverb
Meaning
coercively (comparative more coercively, superlative most coercively)
In a coercive manner.
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All acts, and only those acts, that coercively harm others are evil.
Lifeless bodies (such as the billiard balls) cannot resist such applications of physical force at all, and even living bodies (like arms) can only resist so far, and can be coercively overpowered.
It is only the body of the child that can be coercively controlled by the body of the physically stronger parent; the child's free will remains intact.
The doctrine states that it is the divinely sanctioned duty of the ruler to intervene when such charges are made, and coercively "command right and forbid wrong" in order to keep everything in order according to sharia.
The validity of the claim that, absent physical force or threats, "systematic manipulation of the social influences" can coercively deprive individuals of free will lacks any empirical foundation and has never been confirmed by other research.