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noir_lordlast Saturday at 9:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Depends on how you look at it, if you think people have an innate right to privacy then something that stomps on their privacy is a form of violence, not all violence is physical violence.


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evrydayhustlinglast Saturday at 9:40 PM

Ok, so you define violence to include advocating for a law that tramples someone rights. The next person says that advocating for laws is its own inalienable right, so you trampled him. And the whole semantic redefinition snake just eats its own tail.

If we want constitutional to have any force, we have to push for a world where words mean something.

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barry-cotterlast Saturday at 11:32 PM

All violence is physical violence and any non-metaphorical attempt to define anything else as really violence is Orwellian.

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