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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
No. It's more like bribery.
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As I understood the proposition, it was, "I'm going to cure this disease that's killing you. But if you go against my political ideas, I'm going to take away the cure." That looks like a threat of death to me.
And you know, we say "bribery" when it's addressed to a political official, but not when it's addressed to an ordinary citizen; that usage is semantically odd.