Your boss threatens to fire you if you do not buy 10 boxes of his daughter's Girl Scout Cookies. You begrudgingly buy the 10 boxes of thin mints for fear that you will lose your job. Would this be an example of duress?
A) No because everyone loves thin mints and therefore the reasonable person would not feel a detriment.
B) No because the reasonable person, objectively, would not truly feel pressured into the contract.
C) Yes but only if you can prove that you do not like thin mints.
D) Yes because duress is determined by what the person put under pressure feels, not the reasonable person.

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Duress is determined by the subjective experience of the person being pressured, not by an objective "reasonable person" standard. In this scenario, the threat of losing one's job to force a purchase clearly constitutes duress.

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