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That’s not violence. The word “violence” doesn’t mean anything you don’t like.

I don’t understand why some people want to call everything violence. Watering down the meaning of a word doesn’t help anything.

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Killing you slowly is very much violence.

TIL that the air I breath is committing violence against me.

If it's being poisoned, the people poisoning it sure are.

That is also not violence.

I think you should look up the dictionary definition of violence, because none of your usages of the word match the definition.

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization in the WRVH as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation”.

Which definition are you using?

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