Coercive regulation does not achieve lasting behavior change.

Evidence

All of the preceding remedies seek to alter media practices by coercive and restrictive means. Coercion is not a reliable way of achieving lasting changes in human behavior. The failed congressional efforts to mitigate the detrimental aspects of televised fare testify to the weakness of this approach. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 993

Categorization

  • XREF: Relevant to the reader’s interest in how coercive anti-bias/anti-Islamophobia measures fail compared with alternatives.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 993