• Jaytreeman@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Coercive behavior doesn’t quite work though.
    Yours is better than either of the ones posted, but I do think the physical force aspect is important to differentiate from other aspects.

    I was going to attempt to make a point about how stopping terrorism that isn’t explicitly violent with violence isn’t the same thing.

    Starving a population isn’t violence, but it is terrorism. Attempting to give that population food and being stopped by the state by legal means is terrorism.

    The state is going to define things in specific ways to ensure that they’re considered correct.

    I had written out a response to the person I replied to and then didn’t post after reading some of their other comments. They’re probably just a troll, or one of those people that’s legitimately kind of smart but hasn’t been around people that are incredibly smart, so hasn’t had a reason to adjust their opinions about things because they might be shallowly correct but are fundamentally wrong. Like Newton’s laws.