>She set a car on fire! That is literally violence. I'm referring to violence against people, not objects. >Words are literally not violence. Speech is litera

>She set a car on fire! That is literally violence. I'm referring to violence against people, not objects. >Words are literally not violence. Speech is literally not violence. Silence is literally not violence. I never said any of this, nor do I generally agree with any of it. >Orwell had a term for this. It was called Double-Think. I think these kinds of extreme us-vs-them strawmen are far more damaging, cruel, and thoughtless than the bad usages of the "it's just property" argument you're referring to are. And to be clear, my entire post was in reference to the specific claim that destroying a police cruiser is automatically grounds for using violence against a person - for all I know about the example in question, her behavior on whole may have warranted the level of violence she received, but it's a ridiculous and anti-human opinion to default to.