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That muddies the water a bit; my boss threatened to fire me if i didn't do my job is blackmail under your definition.
by cortic 8y ago
That muddies the water a bit; my boss threatened to fire me if i didn't do my job is blackmail under your definition.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> That muddies the water a bit; my boss threatened to fire me if i didn't do my job is blackmail under your definition. “I threatened to quit my job unless paid more,” fits either definition, so the problem isn't just with the revision.
- jerf 8y agoI think you'd need a concept of licit and illicit threats worked in to make it work, which may be unavoidable. For example, in general, obligations legal under modern contract law would be licit. (If you counter with "what if $SPECIFIC_THING?", I'd say "you missed the 'in general'". I'm going to spare us twenty paragraphs trying to nail that down, and I suggest you run with me on that, I mean, unless you're just dying to read that....) Otherwise you end up with "if you don't make your corn flakes tastier than your competition I'm going to buy theirs" and that's clearly not what we're going for here. The problem lies in the specific conditions being laid down, not the mere conditionalization of my actions on yours. I mean, if you really think about it, it's not even clear what it would mean to try to ban conditionalizing your actions on the actions of others.
- airstrike 8y agoNo, because doing their job is something they ostensibly said they wanted to do when they took the job
- cortic 8y agoJust because you wanted to do something in the past, doesn't remove your right to change you mind, that's taking woman's rights back to the 'no rape law within the holy sacrament of marriage' days.
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