[MD] Coerce me? How?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

[Arlo]
So spaketh slave owners and protagonists of genocide against the 
indigenous peoples. If they wrote "leprechauns exist", I suppose 
you'd believe in them.

"And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social equality 
"self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific evidence 
and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite is 
self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history that 
all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't 
trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men 
are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given 
credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of 
Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World 
upon Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of 
individual who lived in the New World, the person he called the 
"Noble Savage." (Pirsig)

He got it from CONTEMPLATION. It's an intellectual pattern. And these 
derive from culture.

Plain and simple.