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I don't think he was advocating /actual/ violence.

• ugh 15y ago
  While better than actual violence I also don’t want to live in a society where threats of violence are common. That seems like an irrational and barbaric way of solving problems. Violence is a tiny bit too serious for to just discount the threat of it as a nice rhetorical flourish.
  • piccadilly 15y ago
    Well, a measured quantity of violence ('violence' being a very broad category) targeted at someone who is clearly causing harm is sometimes the only effective way of stopping a greater amount of harm. No-violence is clearly better, but assuming that (say) a rape is being committed, some degree of violence is a reasonable response to stop things from happening or deter other things.