 In the article that introduces the term throffer , Steiner considers the difference between interventions in the form of a threat and those in the form of an offer . He concludes that the distinction is based on how the consequences of compliance or noncompliance differ for the subject of the intervention when compared with " the norm " . Steiner observes that a concept of " normalcy " is presupposed in literature on coercion , as changes in well @-@ being for the subject of an intervention are not merely relative , but absolute ; any possibility of an absolute change requires a standard , and this standard is " the description of the normal and preducable course of events , that is , the course of events which would confront the recipient of the intervention were the intervention not to occur " . 
