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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by stonogo on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:44PM (#39854073)
No, screaming at someone is not violence. The WHO definition you cite also restricts its definition to physical force. If screaming were violence, we'd have prisons full of sports fans after every football game.

"Harming someone" is anything which causes harm. We have different words to describe different things. In this way, we can tell them apart when communicating with each other.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by vitiral on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:51PM (#39854190)
Not all violence is wrong or illegal, and not all screaming is violence.

Words are defined by people. By seeing violence as a spectrum you can see the spectrum of possible responses to violence. We can then distinguish the different forms of violence with other words, like "physical"