How To Treat Your Neighbors Suppose you want to organize a picnic with your neighbors. Please think about this. Without a victim there is no crime. There is also a principle which states that for a contract to be valid it has to be knowingly and voluntarily entered into. Attempting to force people to do something when they haven't committed a crime or entered into a contract to do it, is coercion.
Many people are severely deficient in many thinking skills.
People who can't think soundly about a particular area or topic, tend to substitute coercion for thought. Sometimes this happens in several areas of a person's life. Coercive political systems are simply the extension of this phenomenon to the level of society. If people tolerate the substitution of coercion for thought in themselves, it's no wonder that they support coercive political systems to practice coercion on their behalf. In its strongest form, coercion involves killing another.