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Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks agoare you asking me, personally, for a definition of violence
No I asked for a definition that doesn’t include property damage.
No I asked for a definition that doesn’t include property damage.
If you read what they’re saying, they made a pretty good argument for why the definition of violence can include property damage.
You can stick your head in the sand all you want, but only reading answers that match your opinion is a good way to go insane.
The initial claim was that violence does not include property damage. So our self-proclaimed anarchist contradicted themselves in two consecutive comments.
Talk about sticking your head in the head, with reading comprehension like that y’all should go back to twitter
The initial claim was made by a different user. The user you’re talking about elaborated on the importance of context, so they didn’t contradict themselves.
With reading comprehension like that…
Brother, are you blind?
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Well you accused me of whataboutism, so I explained how… yeah you could see it that way if you only look at the surface, but it’s really a way of illustrating a more complex idea.
And well, here you go again, attempting to distill everything into neat, simple little boxes.
Twice now I quite literally explained to you how context is important in … you know, definitions, which literally are a network of syntactic associations that are context… and now you’ve selectively replied by removing all of the context I gave.
So uh, yes, I’m glad we’ve cleared up that you are definitionally a simpleton, only insterested in very surface level, simple understandings of things.
When the person that started this thread said ‘property damage is not violence’, they likely (I can’t read minds, but I’ve got a hunch) meant that property damage is not of the same magnitude of severity, does not or should not be judged by the same set of standards as violence against a person, that the entirety of a scenario involving violence should be considered when assessing it.
IE, they’re using shorthand, and I attempted to unpack some of that shorthand for you.
Sort of like how the colloquial definition of ‘theft’ generally includes shoplifting, but generally excludes wage theft by employers, despite wage theft being of considerably greater monetary magnitude than shrink loss.
If you want ‘a definition’ of violence that doesn’t include property damage, here you go:
Violence is any act that causes harm to a thing capable of suffering.
Now you can point out how that’s a flawed definition, and I will redirect you to my comments on your own flawed and favored definition of terrorism from the FBI, and my own previous attempts at better defining violence, and then maybe we can have the actually interesting conversation about violence and property that you’ve thus far done your damndest to avoid.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I didn’t need any of that explained to me. I understand and agree. You’re trying to argue about things that I am not interested in arguing about.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
After reading through the thread I did the same thing.