Coercion

Coercion is external pressure that overrides or replaces the intentions or the decisions of an agent. Examples are these: a person takes the things that the agent owns, or a person forces the agent to act without agreement. Coercion against an intact boundary breaks the Golden Rule and makes victims. Coercion is wrong unless it acts in a Forfeiture, in one of two conditions. One, it is punishment in proportion, for harm that is already done. Two, it is the minimum force that is necessary to stop a crossing that continues or that is immediately credible, as in self-defense.