roachboy

i'm doing other stuff at the moment, but can maybe come back later to say more...but:

so what you are proposing is to push the notion of violence back onto one of intent?
that's what this looks like to me:

what does that change?

you are also narrowing the notion considerably when you do this.
do you mean that violence is now restricted to intent toward exercising lethal force?

i anticipated the "punch you in the face" response. i was going to write something about it above, but it was already too long. but think about what that would actually demonstrate. maybe explain it to me. for example, i might conclude that you are a sociopath from that response and nothing whatsoever about the "intent" you impute to the action.
so it would perhaps have been effective in the sense of ending the debate, but as a demonstration of anything...i dont see it.

things get curiouser and curiouser as you head down the rabbithole.
just saying.

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