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Re:Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or reque... by aaomidi on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:19PM (#22972484)
Ah yes because they're not being held at gunpoint it's not forced.

Do you really have a very literal definition of forced? No nuance or anything?

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Re:Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or reque... by jshevek on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:23PM (#22972536)
The nuanced approach is to reject extremist characterizations, not embrace them.
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Re:Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or reque... by aaomidi on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:23PM (#22973063)
Yeah unfortunately you're in the wrong here.

There are multiple levels of forced. It's not an on and off switch, as much as people make it out to be.

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Re:Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or reque... by jshevek on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:31PM (#22973130)
In what way am I in the wrong? I did not claim and do not believe that there is only one level of 'forced'. No one here is making it out to be that way.

Edit: Just because there is a range of accepted meanings for the word 'forced' doesn't mean that all uses of the word 'forced' are correct. Even with the most low key interpretations of the word 'forced', I don't think that this is in any way the correct word for this situation.

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