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Someone putting a literal gun to my head is much different from someone saying that someone else is putting a metaphorical gun to my head.
by paulcole 5y ago
Someone putting a literal gun to my head is much different from someone saying that someone else is putting a metaphorical gun to my head.
- salawat 5y agoAnd yet both have the same outcome. One is compelled at great ost to oneself to comply or otherwise suffer greater, possibly terminal (for that case) future harm. I'm sorry, but no, I don't buy your assertion. Being in a position of power over someone or something and dropping a line like that is as good as an outright threat of violence, no matter how badly people don't want others to consider it as such because it makes their lives easier, and conscience lighter.
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