Oh for Pete's sake, cut the keyboard tuffguy schtick and try to use your brain muscle instead.
If your only point is that a respectable individual can be beaten to a pulp without giving in, ok, fine!
That's not a very novel concept.
Is that simpleton point all that you've been trying to make all this time?
I was pointing out a little more interesting distinction.
That is, the difference between the force of the state to compel something and mano-y-mano type force which you describe.
This may be too complex for you to grasp.
Well don't be so ignorant as to continue to spout that you can force someone to do anything.
Cut your own keyboard tuffgy schtick slick and we'll get along just fine. I asked you a simple question and you start on this overblown legal analysis that hasn't to do squat with what I asked.
Can you FORCE me to testify.
You can't, end of story.
The ONLY thing you can do to ANYONE is punish them.
Maybe you should try reading what is said instead of going off half cocked. The statement was very simple
IT IS A CHOICE
Whether you choose to believe it or not is immaterial.