[Gllug] BBC Open Source

[Doug Winter]

Sean Burlington wrote:
> you are not denied a TV - you chose not to have one - this is different

Of course you are denied a TV by that rationale - there is "choice" 
involved, but surely anyone reasonable would say that the threat of 
prosecution, and therefore at some remove the threat of imprisonment and 
death if you defy them, is coercion.

To take it to a foolish extreme, I could introduce an oxygen license for 
only £1,000,000 and anyone who doesn't pay can *choose* not to use any 
oxygen.  That isn't really a choice is it.

All forms of coercion involve some element of choice, it doesn't stop it 
being coercion.

doug.

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