Violence
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Violence is a general term used to describe aggressive, non-friendly, not pacifistic, and belligerant attitudes and behavior.
Some people tell that violence can be legitimate or justified. They tell that violence is justified when someone defends themselves from unjustified violence or when an army or a soldier under control by a legitimate nation fights or defends against others under the general laws and idea of international law. But, violence is always violence, undepending if it is justified or not.
Violence can also be illegitimate or not justified when violence is not provoked and/or not justified.
Actually is hard to determine if a violence act is justified or not, just because it is difficult to determine who is the victim and who is the aggressor. It is usual that economic and sociocultural aspects assists to determine this in a partial way.
[edit] Types of violence
Violence can be:
- verbal : insults (name calling or anything that hurts anothers feelings);
- physical : fighting, killing, and/or hurting another;
- sexual : a person who makes someone else subject to sexual actions they do not want;
- symbolic : acts done symbolically to oppose a leader or group whose ideas one opposes;
- racial : when a victim of a violent act is chosen because of his or her race or nationality.
