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Lemmy, do you condone violence? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

When used as a defense against violence or other severely harmful actions, yes.

The threat needs to either be imminent or an ongoing perpetuation of violence or other severely harmful action. An example of an ongoing severely harmful action would include being restrained physically or geographically and being starved.