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You are free to go, I guess... (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a "grander gesture" (quote me correctly pls) than an informal promise with a friend. Do you consider signing a lease or a mortgage to be the rough equivalent of a school bully putting you in a headlock?

[โ€“] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No, because I can refuse to sign the lease and I won't get put in prison for that. Swearing a compulsory oath under threat of imprisonment in a sitiation you were forced to be in isn't any kind if gesture, it's just submission to coersion, nothing more, nothing less.