  The bulk of Feinberg's account focuses, however, on how coercive proposals can generate pressure on the coercee's will that, if not irresistible, is sufficiently strong to make the coercee's choice unfree. This account avoids a reliance on baselines because it makes the coercee's judgment of the frightfulness, unwelcomeness and pressure involved in the threat the key criterion for determining whether it coerces. Feinberg goes on to give a detailed discussion of how one might compare the pressures involved when coercers issue various sorts of demands coupled with various sorts of threats, suggesting ways of calculating the “total coercive burden” a threat creates for a coercee.