The following correspondence originally took place here, upon the Facebook page, “Statism is Slavery“…
(replies from all third parties have been omitted for clarity)
Statism is Slavery: All aggression is violence, but not all violence is aggression. Discuss. -Ray
Rayn: To me, all violence is a form of aggression, by definition, so my distinction between its types would be those acts based upon the initiation of violence, and those acts of self-defense. With this, a third, more grey area emerges: those acts based on an unequal, cruel or unusual response to the initiation of violence. And, though this third category would likely be the least-occurring form of violence, it would be where the most divergence of opinion would reside… at least, among those of us who understand self-defense to be a natural right, that is! 🙂
