Can we agree that a contract entered into under duress is invalid and should be voided in a court of law?
If I blackmail you into signing, or force you to sign at gunpoint, or under threat of other unpleasant consequences for failing to do so, you would rightly expect a court to discharge you from your alleged obligation under the contract, would you not?
What sort of judge, knowing that your signature had been extorted under duress would enforce the contractual penalty against you?
And yet you expect the righteous judge presiding over the Court of Last Judgement to condemn to perpetual torment someone whose only offence was to refuse to be bullied into signing a contract of service under threat of the aforementioned perpetual torment?
And as a corollary, you expect the judge to reward with bliss anyone who signed up only to avoid the torment and not for any positive reasons?
Of course, there is also the technical problem that the said judge was apparently the one ordering the threatening in the first place, and hence is acting as prosecutor and judge in his own cause.
Now, in an earthly court, that would sound like the sort of show trial that takes place under tyrannical regimes where citizens have no right to justice.
Are you quite sure you’re interpreting this doctrine correctly?
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