How do you categorize violence?

Question

There are different kinds of violence: racial violence, domestic violence, violence against women, and political violence, to name a few. Give me your taxonomy of violence. How would you organize the various types into meaningful and relevant categories?

This is a poll-type question -- I don't need "the correct" way of categorizing violence, I just want to collect opinions to see how people are thinking.

Answer 1

violence through ignorance ie people being tools or misconceptions
vs
violence that is 'justified' or neccessary
vs
violence for violence sake or hatred

Answer 2

Violence 4 Love!

Answer 3

It sounds like you are talking only about criminal forms of violence, where one person is violting the perceived rights of another person to not have their lives or actions interferred with. There are other types of violence. Violent activity in footbal and boxing.

A person might divide types of criminal violence into institutionally organized violence and violence waged by and individual against another individual

Answer 4

Violence is "violence"...it is not right in any shape or form.
There is way too much violence on TV/in the world/and in the schools. Kids nowadays are stuffed violence down their throats with bad TV/video games/ etc...it's scary!!

Answer 5

There's evil unnecessary violence. most abhorrent to me in this order of sickening violence..
Violence against children
Violence against innocent populations.
Violence against the defenseless.
Domestic violence.
Violence against prisoners.
Of course all unjust violence is despicable,and the list is long..

And there's necessary violence.

When one perpetrates unjust violence, as above, on others, it sometimes becomes necessary to stop them with violence.

Often as in Iraq, collateral unjust violence becomes much worse than the targeted offenders., and a greater evil is perpetrated on the victims than they experienced before.

P.S. And don't forget not all violence is necessarily physical. Psychological violence is traumatic as well.

Answer 6

violence steaming from emotion of loss of control
violence for profit
violence for self image
violence for social approval

Answer 7

Living human kind of intelligent design in worshiping God with living words or living human kind with loss of IQ living in misery like a cave-men with idol worshiping the dead Mummy with ghostly and deadly words in planet of apes.
Leviticus 26.1, Luke 9.60

Answer 8

If it hurts it's violence.

Answer 9

I would do it in this matter:


A. Self-preservation
B. Arrogance in Ignorance