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Comment by waych | Hacker News Reader

vi·o·lence /ˈvī(ə)ləns/

noun

    behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

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if your definition places injuries to human beings in the same category as damage to things, then your definition is just an excuse to do violence on people

Damage to things damages people. This is hard for communists to understand, as they don't believe in private property.

You can't have freedom and liberty without the security of private property. Learn some history.

Private property is by definition a limit on freedom -- it's always a trade-off. Slave societies were always obsessed with protecting their freedoms.

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