  Some accounts of coercion apply a moralized test to the coercee's situation, holding that one may avoid responsibility for an act taken under coercion if the coercer's proposal is such that one “is entitled to yield to [the coercer's] proposal and then be released from the normal moral and legal consequences of [one's] act” (Wertheimer 1987, 267). Such a moralized test might be the best theorists can do, but it requires a theory separate from that which explains the coerciveness of the proposal to begin with. (For instance, Wertheimer's theory has two “prongs”: the first prong decides whether a particular proposal is coercive; it's the second prong which then determines whether a coercive proposal, once made, does indeed coerce someone in the sense that it affects her responsibility for acquiescing). Although there are some specific moralized or normative tests one might use to decide responsibility for action under coercion, it is unclear that any of them is robust enough to handle more than a fraction of the  cases.[17]