Re:Revenge porn: More than 200 prosecuted under new law
by coldtea on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:36PM
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>That's a dishonest redefining of a word.
It's neither dishonest nor redefinition.
Check a dictionary for "violence". You'll find several lemmas unrelated to force and beating. Also Google for "psychological violence", "emotional violence" etc. You'll find it's a common use.
>* The motivation behind it is: people think violence is bad, we'll call this thing violence even though it isn't, so people think this thing is worse that they already think.*
People have been using the word "violence" for non-physical for centuries, it's not some sudden "motivation" that causes this.
It makes sense to use the term for something like exposing an ex-girlfriend's/wife's naked photographs on the world.
I don't think many would find the practice acceptable in the first place, for there to be any need to classify it as "violence" to convince people it's bad.
It's neither dishonest nor redefinition.
Check a dictionary for "violence". You'll find several lemmas unrelated to force and beating. Also Google for "psychological violence", "emotional violence" etc. You'll find it's a common use.
>* The motivation behind it is: people think violence is bad, we'll call this thing violence even though it isn't, so people think this thing is worse that they already think.*
People have been using the word "violence" for non-physical for centuries, it's not some sudden "motivation" that causes this.
It makes sense to use the term for something like exposing an ex-girlfriend's/wife's naked photographs on the world.
I don't think many would find the practice acceptable in the first place, for there to be any need to classify it as "violence" to convince people it's bad.