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So if violence is physical harm , and harm does not require awareness of being harmed or pain (visa vi the person shot in the head) , then everything is violence. Crushing a beer can before putting it into the garbage, tearing a sheet of paper, breaking a glass, grinding coffee beans.
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node 2y ago

A beer can, a sheet of paper, a glass, coffee beans. Those are all inanimate objects.

I see where you’re by going with this, or at least I think. Harm needs to be done on a human or an animal

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Séimí Mac Síomón 2y ago

Is it the potential of the thing being harmed therefore , to feel pain, or to be aware that harm was done, that defines harm, regardless of whether or not that is the case in the specific instance.

In other words, is harm dependent on having the potential to be aware and to feel?

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node 2y ago

Harm is dependent on being alive. So yes.