Both tolerating and opposing coercion serve the same psychic function

Evidence

In comparison with this functional significance of coercion as such, its particular content is of only secondary importance. Senseless coercion may be replaced by sensible coercion, but even the latter has its significance, which is relevant here, only in that which it shares with the former. Moreover, not only the toleration of coercion, but also opposition to it—both to unjust and to justified coercion—has for the rhythm of our surface life this same function of inhibition and interruption: to make conscious and effective the deeper currents of the most intimate and substantial life, which cannot be inhibited by any external means. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 769

Categorization

• XREF: This inverts the common assumption that freedom comes from resisting coercion; connects to liberal theories of autonomy vs. Simmel’s functionalism. — connects to: Opposed behaviors like miserliness and prodigality share a single root impulse — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 462; Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously — , A Year of World Stories, 4077; Locke’s toleration simultaneously depicted Muslims as both dangerous and tolerable

Broader Connections

• Opposed behaviors like miserliness and prodigality share a single root impulse #epitomizes (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 462
• Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously #corroborates (0.60) — , A Year of World Stories, 4077
• Locke’s toleration simultaneously depicted Muslims as both dangerous and tolerable #exemplifies (0.60)