(July 20, 2021 at 5:01 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Perhaps within your personal philosophy. But calling anything you don't like an act of violence is cognitively and linguistically impoverished; it also dilutes the meaning of the word beyond utility. As it stands, power can be exercised without violence, fraud can deceive without violence, and force can exist without violence (see Hazel v State, 1960).
Is nonviolent rape less abhorrent than violent rape?