10-11-2016, 05:12 PM
(10-11-2016, 04:30 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Call it semantics if you want, but we're not talking the difference between happy and glad here and I would hope you understand that. There is nothing coercive about referent power (but there is about legitimate power "authority") and it is relevant, but yeah; go with just semantics.
There is nothing inherently coercive in any power, only in how it is used. And yes, we are talking about the difference between happy and glad. Authority and power are synonyms, after all.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
