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varispeedlast Sunday at 1:51 AM1 replyview on HN

No, that’s a misread. I’m not collapsing “intimidation” into “violence”. I’m pointing out that psychological and coercive violence are legally and medically recognised forms of harm. The distinction you’re making is rhetorical, not substantive. The state can’t redefine violence narrowly to exclude itself while criminal law already accepts non-physical violence as real. The argument is about consistency, not syllogisms.


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nandomrumberlast Sunday at 4:28 AM

Get your own words, we’re already using these ones.

Violence is a category of harm.

Definitions matter.

If speech is violence then execution is a suitable punishment.