| | On the premise that morality is personal, I wonder what constitutes force.
I believe that we are wrong to assume that everyone is created equal. Different people obviously have different abilities. In medieval Iceland, during its heroic age, all men were assumed to be equal at combat. So, open combat was sanctioned. To us today, that would be clearly a case of the strong oppressing the weak as size matters when your weapons are swords and axes. Therefore, in America, we have said that men were not born equal but that Col. Colt made them equal. The handgun is the great equalizer. A woman or a child could take down the largest man, to say nothing of the marginally smaller man.
I believe that a similar range of differences applies mentally.
Education is the great equalizer. Those of use who are less clever can read and memorize the ideas of other people and expand our understanding, so as not to be bullied by those who are clever, witty, and malevolent.
I believe that there exist variables in mental power, analogous, to speed, strength, agility, and endurance in physical power.
Therefore, so called "high pressure salesmen" are aggressors who prey on the weak.
The question is not whether making an empassioned and motivating appeal is right or wrong, but what your intent is in making such an appeal.
The problem then becomes one of proving intent.
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