 Ian Hunt concurs that offers may be considered coercive , and claims that , whatever form the interventions take , they may be considered coercive " when they are socially <unk> in <unk> <unk> over action that diminish an agent 's freedom overall " . He accepts that a possible objection to his claim is that at least some coercive offers do seemingly increase the freedom of their recipients . For instance , in the thought experiment of the lecherous millionaire , a millionaire offers a mother money for treatment for her son 's life @-@ threatening illness in exchange for her becoming the millionaire 's mistress . Joel Feinberg considers the offer coercive , but in offering a possibility of treatment , the millionaire has increased the options available to the mother , and thus her freedom . For Hunt , Feinberg " overlooks the fact that the millionaire 's offer opens the option of [ the mother ] saving her child on condition that the option of not being [ the millionaire 's ] mistress is closed " . Hunt does not see the mother as more free ; " while it is clear that she has a greater capacity to pursue her interests as a parent once the offer has been made , and to that extent can be regarded as freer , it is clear also that her capacity to pursue her sexual interests may have been diminished . " Every coercive proposal , whether threat , offer or throffer , according to Hunt , contains a simultaneous loss and gain of freedom . Kristjánsson , by contrast , argues that Feinberg 's account of " coercive offers " is flawed because these are not offers at all , but throffers . 
