According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, threat is 'an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage'. The Cambridge Dictionary defines 'threat as a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is not followed.'

To make people law-abiding in every sphere of life, a threat is being imposed as a systematic technique or tool of the upbringing process. It is a technique of dominance, power, and authority. The powerful insinuate a threat towards the weaker. The very purpose of a threat is to make a human being disciplined, obedient, and loyal, as well as morally responsible. Our very law/act is the result of an inflicted threat. In a disciplined society/nation or a family as a basic and fundamental social institution, a newborn is taught to be a law-abiding member. Parents or caregivers use threats variously from very childhood. A child is emotionally sensitized by parents with a threat to obey the rules and regulations of the particular family. As an example, a child is threatened with being locked in a dark chamber, or parents will leave the child alone, and so forth, if he/she does obey the rules and regulations. Then, we see that threat is impinged in school by teachers, whose purpose is the same: to make pupils law-abiding and moral as well as obedient and disciplined. But the threat is of two types—soft and hard—that’s use is according to the density of offenses.

So, the culture of threat/threat culture is not a new imported phenomenon. Whether 'Our culture their culture', threat culture was, is, and will be in every society. It is a tool of power stirring. Like many other cultures (social, economic, and political culture), threat culture is historically significant and important. From the time of the primitive age to the most modern age, threat culture has been playing a vital role in every economic system (from slavery to the democratic system). Power struggle or class struggle is determined by a threat culture because everyone has a will to be bossed. Exploitation is very strongly attached to the threat culture. Every economic and political system is the extract of exploitation and threat culture. Furthermore, how is it possible when a few rules a big number?

The world society (internal and intra-national) runs depending on this threat culture in various forms (two world wars are historical evidence of a threat culture). It indicates how common people in each segment would behave towards the rule and rulers, which is a comfortable passage to spread power and authority. When an offspring is obedient towards parents or other seniors of the family, when they follow their strategic planning in daily life, parents are happy and comfortable

In democracy, a threat culture is very common. It is not suddenly originated or imported. Every political party in rule uses it when people raise their voices against rule and rulers. It was, it is, and it will be. Whether it is good government or good governance, threat culture is a technique of suppression and dominance as well as exploitation. In a democracy, people face threats even at the time of casting their votes. They are ruled by their own elected government. Democratic leaders never forget to threaten the opposition very seriously when they criticize, because they are afraid of losing power and, obviously, losing personal gain enjoying being in power. Actually, it is a rule of autocracy. No one can be democratic in an adverse situation where his or her personal interests are under scanner.

Raising a voice against threat culture (agitation, movement, hunger strike, and others) is like psychologyless psychology because it is also a threat.

No one can leave his/her personal greed and interest and also name and fame easily for the sake of the common or others. Therefore, democracy without a threat culture never stands for.

Mutual understanding, respect, and compromise without personal interest are the only ways to live together with peace and love. It would be the only path to justice and equity.