Astounding resourcing Captain Amazing, thank you!
I do however disagree with your accusation of Sophomoric Philosophizing in regards to the term ‘coerce’.
Sound is a force which can be measured and felt physically.
Speech is a method of coersion. Typeset is a force which can be measured and felt physically. Typeset is a method of coersion.
The issue then becomes of consent.
Consent is a function of cognitice age, or the ‘dumb luck’ of acute knowledge possession.
This brings up the term ‘Informed consent’. Informed consent can only be coded into the law itself, as no human being can be trusted to know what informed consent is, or to even provide it if they understand that it will affect consent.
There is no human being who has been born on this earth who was consentually informed to the agreement of being born; they have equally not been recognized as such in law.
To assure that the usage of coerce in law can be distinguished from all interaction; it needs to have a very precise definition, as there is no precidence in law which addresses the issue of NO living being not having had been a victim of coersion, as defined by the law.
The use of coersion makes every child bearing citizen necessarily guilty of the crime until such a precident is established into law which recognizes the rights of the individuals yet to be born as having had been fundamentally violated; and to offer not an apology as such an act is impossible; but an effective means to express their right to not be here. It also allows them to know that people in 5000+ years of making law have not been so obtuse as to not recognize this obvious truth; and to that degree, aknowledge them as a being who exists.
This also in effect holds law itself accountable to a standard which can be measured. It holds all beings of governing ideation accountable to measurable statistics and experiential realities of the effect of their behaviors upon the society as a whole; and upon their interactions with everything from their nucleus family to the citizens upon which they brag in humbleness.
-Justhink