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wait. while i like levite's post above, i'm not sure that i understand what violence is.
the op defines it as a matter of intent: is that adequate? is violence a subjective state of affairs? is it the same as "malice" which is more or less a synonym for "evil"?
then there's that confused and confusing paragraph which starts off mentioning war, then moves into some curious compression of arguments made by reactionaries like robert ardrey (the territorial imperative)--so social darwinism---and then onto some notion of natural selection....but that is to move from a legal state of affairs (War) to a questionable mapping of a cartoon version of darwinian evolutionary theory onto human motivations, to darwinian evolution in a cliff-notes form.
obviously the first subjective-oriented definition has little if anything to do with the others.
and then there's a question of the relation between, say, a predatory animal and it's prey---unless you anthropomorphize them---and so move what you're seeing through projections as to your own emotional responses, or what you'd imagine them to be were you the prey---how and in what way is this relation violent?
can't get started without knowing what we're talking about.
sorry.
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