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Originally Posted by Ab
This instantly stands out to me as bureaucratic nonsense.
The threat of a thing is not the thing. If I threaten to kill you, I have not killed you. If I threaten to rape you, I have not raped you. If I threaten to commit violence upon you, I have not committed violence upon you.
If the threat of the thing is the same as the thing, then a threat to issue a threat to do the thing is the same as the thing. And a threat to threaten to threaten to do the thing is the same as the thing. Etc.
Living in a state of constant fear of physical violence can cause you harm, no doubt. But that harm is not violence.
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Why? What's the difference between violently fucking someone up and non-violently fucking someone up? I don't get it. Do you have a different response to people who non-violently hurt people you care about?
Is it because using political power to fuck someone up is somehow legitimate?