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JonathanBoyerSecondPaper 5 - 20 Jan 2010 - Main.JonathanBoyer
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*UNDER CONSTRUCTION* | | | "We don't force. It's exactly about not forcing, our history's genus. You [as an American] are entitled to your values of maximum pleasure. So long as you don't fuck with mine." --p.424 | |
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< | But arguably nary a case exists in which choice is not accompanied by some level of coercion. In other words, much of human decision-making derives its structure from extraneous, often social, pressures that are specifically designed to coerce. And depending on the magnitude of coercive pressure at play, an individual's capacity for resistance and autonomous choice-analysis will be tested to varying degrees. If, then, individual autonomy can be defined as an inverse function of coercion level, one can also imagine a full range of solutions, or mixtures, of autonomy relative to coercion, given more or less of each. The autonomy question, then, is one of miscibility: at what point(s) does a coercion:autonomy ratio produce an immiscible solution -- point(s) where the coercion level is no longer soluble within a free-flow of autonomy? | >
> | But arguably nary a case exists in which choice is not accompanied by at least some level of coercion. In other words, much of human decision-making derives its structure from extraneous, often social, pressures that are specifically designed to coerce. And depending on the magnitude of coercive pressure at play, an individual's capacity for resistance and autonomous choice-analysis will be tested to varying degrees. If individual autonomy, then, can be defined as an inverse function of coercion level, one can also imagine a full range of solutions, or mixtures, of autonomy relative to coercion, given more or less of each. The autonomy question, then, is one of miscibility: at what point(s) does the coercion:autonomy ratio produce an immiscible solution -- point(s) where the coercion level is no longer soluble within a free-flow of autonomy? | | | "Now you will say how free are we if you dangle fatal fruit before us and we cannot help ourselves from temptation. And we say 'human' to you. We say that one cannot be human without freedom." |
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