JD-EE wrote.....
Now imagine it runs your automobile. Forward means go forward, the further forward the faster. And so forth. Now suppose you hit an obstacle, a speed bump. Your body jerks forward. Your car lurches forward into a crash. This is not a problem if you're sitting comfortably with no sudden accelerations over a small fraction of a G. But add in jerks from turbulence and you might find your arm involuntarily inputting a control surface change that was out of the range the plane could tolerate."
This is exactly my point....not the joystick receives feedback but that in this situation if factors are as assumed who would have a steady hand in trying to recover this a/c in direct law. Any little bump or quick movement would translate rather quickly to the joystick if the pilots hand is on it....not as easy to inadvertently shove the control column full forward in turbulence when "hand flying" it.