Blackmail is not about stealing or ransoming physical property, but rather about a threat to communicate damaging claims, true or fabricated; stop trying to cha

Blackmail is not about stealing or ransoming physical property, but rather about a threat to communicate damaging claims, true or fabricated; stop trying to change definitions. False allegations need not be used to induce arrest, but may be to defame, shame or stigmatize. Theft of non-physical property, e.g. almost all money, need not involve any force. > What force am I using on you or your things when I decide not to host you on my website? You're really not getting it; "force" is not the point. > And you don’t get to combine actual physical threats with things that are not force to pretend like they are force. Combining fiolence with force, and comparing the outcome with force alone naturally tells us about the impact of fiolence. When human rights experts say that prolonged solitary confinement is torture, it is because the psychological harm is severe, not because the threat of physical force is any different. If you think there's a moral difference between imprisoning someone and imprisoning and torturing someone through non-force means, then those extra actions must bear some real moral weight. We live in the context of a society where the threat of force by the state is omnipresent, and non-physical means of manipulating that threat can nevertheless be fatal.