Racketeering

Emotional blackmail is the ability to coerce resources through means of emotive weaponry. This is contrasted with emotional persuasion through means of emotive messages. An example of emotional blackmail is the awareness and knowledge of emotional duress as a result of a particular speech or action in pursuing of an particular outcome or goal.

Racketeering where violence and harm is inflicted as a result of non-payment of consideration has a similar concept. This means that harm or violence is withdrawn resulting from the payment of money. Hence seen from this perspective, emotional blackmail means that emotional harm is not inflicted so long as demands are acceded.

The point of racketeering is that it can be inflicted by anonymous strangers and people whom you do not know. Emotional blackmail can only be inflicted by people whom you have an emotional attachment with and hence can only be inflicted by people whom you are familiar with.

I go to a place to place a threat and a second round, I demand payment and on the third, I inflict harm or place a threat again to ensure a continuance of payment. But what if, we can place emotional attachment and remove it at the second round in exchange for payment or accession of demands and on the third, we continue to attach emotions and also payment at the same time. This is what we mean by emotional blackmail and it can be done purposively and in a contrived manner.

Emotional persuasion aims to tug at your heartstrings and persuade rather than a threat of emotional violence. This means that rather than racketeering, I go straight to you and say that if you pay me money, your life will be better than status quo- that is call selling.

In any case or any forms of conventions or morality, the former is and will always be wrong. Firstly, racketeering causes harm, which is the same as emotional blackmail. The removal or the restraint of harm is the cause. This means that one can or cannot do harm with or without payment or condoning. The payment or accession is not the precondition for status quo. This means that with or without the vessel of harm, status quo should and must prevail.

The above is a normative statement simply because all forms of coercion is considered as harmful insofar that it does not causes further harm. This means that if my payment goes into reduction of harm as a whole then would it be considered as virtuous and good. But all racketeering and emotional blackmail is often more selfish purposes and even more good is done- it is often incidental and not as a result of purposeful action. A person who sweeps his own floor and causes dust to be disposed properly cannot be attributed for the reduction of asthma attacks simply because that is not his/her aim. Hence the same cannot be said of the racketeer or the emotional blackmailer.

I have been a victim of emotional blackmail for some time simply because I refuse to think that emotional blackmail is purview of men. This means that even if "emotional blackmail" is purposively done by a perpetrator- male or female, men have every right to reject it at every point in time simply because masculinity demands of it.

This is my personal view: men who consider women as a threat to their heart is in colloquial terms, a wuss. Men who consider other men as a direct threat to their heart is a gay and gays are an unnatural phenomenon. The above is highly stereotypical and sexist but unfortunately, the fact of the matter is that men/women, masculinity/ feminity is intertwined and cannot be untangled.

Take care folks.