This principle states that if one acts freely, then one could have done differently. The principle is associated with the claim that a person should not be held morally responsible for actions due to unavoidable situations, or situations in which he is forced to do something. However, we can argue that these statements are not necessarily true. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt claims this in his essay Freedom of the Will and the Concept of the Person. In situations where a man is threatened or forced to do something, it is difficult to determine what the man's actions will be in those cases in response to the threat, since his decision to act will be subjective. However, in the case where the coercion actually affected the man, and that force or suggestion was the only reason why the man acted as he did, it seems that he is not held morally responsible. But when coercion does not affect man, he is morally responsible for his action. This leads to the claim that a person is held morally responsible only in situations of coercion, when suggestion itself is the only factor in a person's decision-making process. However, the principle of alternative possibilities provides no such explanation or association with such a statement. For this reason we can question the principle of alternative possibilities, since there are numerous situations that constitute exceptions