TCS and Coercion

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@Elliot

This enabled TCS to claim, roughly, that if parents would just stop hurting their kids – stop punishing, yelling, frowning, and doing any other overt bad actions – then their children would never become irrational, coerced, etc. They could raise super kids without becoming particularly good people or thinkers themselves

To what extent is the goal of almost never being in a coerced state actually achievable for people who know this stuff well? How hard is it? The last sentence in this interview of DD makes it sound like he is never in a coerced state.