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I disagree only in your definition of violence.  All violence equates to is force that is designed to cause physical injury or damage, up to and including lethal force.  For example, self-defense is violence, particularly if it's in response to violence initiated against you.  I've spent a lot of time and consideration on this topic, and semantics in general, because having a clear, precise explanation - being able to precisely articulate your message - is vitally important.

The distinction that makes some violence moral and other violence immoral is whether or not it was initiated.  Reciprocal violence is not immoral; that's self-defense.  Initiatory violence, on the other hand...

Dishonesty and omission is absolutely abusive.

Great write up.  Thank you <3

Awesome post I had to re-post. Still getting used to the steemit platform. More writters like this and I will be hooked.

The perfect explanations as to Violence and Coercion. There are a ginormous number of people who're abused everyday in form of verbal, moral and monetary violence and people don't take action on these because they only consider physical abuse is a violence. 
But violence has no fixed rules and shape, everything which violates the law is VIOLENCE. It's time people should know and act against it.
You portrayed it perfectly @jphenderson . A big thumbs up for you :)

fair enough - violence is a shocking thing in a world where we need to cooperate more in a spirit of loving kindness to all, however of course retaliation is another thing and defence is only a logical response. I like your writing and considered thought -David

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This is an extremely simplified reactionary response and is incredibly dangerous when amplified to a societal level.

I would suggest approaching the question from a larger historical perspective while not defining "violence."  Violence is much more than an act.

I agree with you that violence is not always physical, and there is also some moral responsibility to "resist" violence; however, I do not think I agree that the answer is always returned force. Nonviolence can be the manner in which violence is resisted.

Well put together. I cannot agree more, but this is the world we live in today, everything is up-side-down. Immorality goes beyond imagination, manipulation and dishonesty go hand-in-hand, and who's to blame?? Well for once is the governments,  but we, the people cannot excuse ourselves, because we went with the lies telling ourselves that we have to conform to the rules. But that's not the case, it was actually more comfortable to say "well, that's the law" instead of acting and taking position against abuse. Well, people are starting to realize that we cannot hide behind what's comfortable and we have to account for our own (in)actions. it's time to step up and do what's right instead of what's convenient.

I found your article very informative. We sometimes do get into discussion about the use of self-defense in a country where the criminal is often more protected than the defender in violent crimes. Now I can add these insightful remarks to my arsenal for debate. Thank you. Followed.

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Good post thank u for sharing :-)

The bigest form of violence is tray to present yourself as victim ................

Have a nice day, good morning

I like the way you think!!!

Interesting post. 
"If someone is physically abusive to another then that person has the right to strike back with sufficient force to make the other person stop."
 I don't agree with this statement. Legally talking, the only individuals allowed by law to use physical or mental violence are the army and police. Anybody else is allowed to use violence only in a defensive way and not on revenge. 
Of course, we are talking from a legal point of view in a western country. Upvoted and following. Cheers!

I'm confused, you say reacting against violence is a moral obligation, but that clearly isn't the case.  

I'm in my mid 40's, let's say I'm walking in the park and three 12 year olds start making fun of me; you think it's best to go and have an argument with them?  Surely, recognising the hormonal imbalance of these young people, and not engaging them will lead to better outcomes for them, and probably for you.

Sometimes it's better to recognise other people's behaviour as irrational and just give them a pass, being obliged to respond will make the world much worse.

You got my vote and a resteem :)

Self defense is surely the right of every person.

nice write up but I'm with @anarcho-andrei on this. words are not violence and sometimes, self defence can be violence on it's own.
Let me give you a quick example.
Here in Nigeria, people believe in what is called Jungle justice. if someone steals from somewhere or rapes a woman and he's caught by the people of the community, he will e severally beaten if not killed before the police gets to the crime scene.
what do you call that? defence or violence?

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Nice post

Mr@jphenderson .. I like the way you wrote at the beginning of paragraph  

Greetings steemians! Today I want to talk to you about violence and defence. This seems to come from the misconception that force is equivalent to violence. Force can be defined as the capacity to do work or cause physical change.

Thank you post amazing I like

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Hello, how best can someone reach you ?
Got a question about chainbb . Thanks!

Natural Law is so simple even I can get it, ha.
Mark Passio gets me too angry at everything though.
Thanks, my anarchist side needed a wakeup call.

Very interesting post! Especially because of all the violence in this world nowadays... in Europe there are a lot of countries, where people have to be scared to go to, because they're afraid of terrorists and random people who commit murder, abusive acts, etc... (not only in *Europe*)! This post is very informative and I'm glad I read through it! Thanks for sharing :)