2008-07-22 issue:
Don’t cheapen the term
by Ronald L. Rich, Bluffton, OhioI appeal to J. Denny Weaver (“Visualizing Violence,” May 20) and C. Norman Kraus (Readers Say, June 17) along with many others not to support good arguments by calling bad, but nonviolent, behavior violent. This cheapens the term—a bit like calling “Wolf!” too often when we later need its full effect. My computer dictionary defines violence as “using or involving physical force [my emphasis] intended to hurt, damage or kill someone or something” and also a “destructive natural force,” as in “the violent eruption killed 1,700 people.” Kraus and others rightly note that some coercion is legitimate.
Associated Issue: Poverty in the suburbs - May 20, 2008
Associated Article: Visualizing nonviolence
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