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Wouldn't it just force the creation of a new coin?

Yes and that new coin would not be bitcoin. Further it would be highly susceptible to 51% attacks.

Ok, I was just curious. If there are enough people willing to work together on a "new BitCoin", call it BitCoin Classic for argument's sake, it could be possible that this new growth gets nerfed.

I personally don't see why a group of BitCoin-ers would do this, but with the amount of scrutiny around the whole SegWit (2x) push, I wouldn't be completely shocked if something unexpected happens on or before 7/29.

I'm a very skeptical person to begin with, so all of the rumblings around BTC for the past several months have got me a bit on edge :)

Thanks for the responses!

Well some people have threatened to do that before. In some ways you could consider that existing altcoins like Litecoin are exactly that.