I remember the Idea Channel on YouTube had a video about violence. He started by quoting an artist saying something to the effect that putting paint to canvas w

I remember the Idea Channel on YouTube had a video about violence. He started by quoting an artist saying something to the effect that putting paint to canvas was a violent act. The host went on to define violence as the taking away of agency. The rest of the video was mostly him arguing that physical violence is as easy to define as you might think and that ideas and speech can in fact be violent. My reaction was that even if at the margin physical violence isn’t as easy to pin down as you imagine, I don’t understand making the term violence so broad that it loses its meaning. If everything is violent then nothing is.