Coercionism
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Coercionism is the belief that man's presumed incapacity for self-government provides him sufficient license to rule over his fellow man -- and the parallel belief that deceit, threat, force, and theft are legitimate tools of governance necessitated by man's nature, instead of the recognition that such abuses are the natural outgrowth of man's efforts to exert dominance over his brothers.
Coercionism may be manifested is various political forms, ranging from dictatorship to democracy, but it is the sense of entitlement among the ruler/s -- whether a "strong man" or the majority -- that distinguishes it from its ideological opposite, Voluntar(y)ism.
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