All of this ignores that choices are still being made. You denying that fact because their situation is terrible is dodging or denying that reality. You're so focused on the idea it's not really a real choice because the options are shitty, therefore no choice is being made, and that's objectively false. You're using the idea of duress to negate that a choice exists, which is also objectively false. Legally speaking, duress just makes it so that choice is not your fault and that you can't be held accountable to that choice, but it does not completely negate or deny the fact that a choice was made at all. For the idea of duress to exist in that context, the choice HAS TO EXIST and HAD TO BE MADE for that argument to ever be used in the first place that you made the choice while under duress.