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May 2, 2012 psm1580b joined My Stranger Face

May 2, 2012 psm1580b commented on Why All the Smashy-Smashy? A Beginner's Guide to Targeted Property Destruction..

The writer seems to be blindingly ignorant of both psychology and ethics. How about some sort of lower animal? Perhaps squirrels? Is hitting a squirrel with a baseball bat violence or vandalism? If hitting something is wrong, it follows that it does not matter the nature of the thing that is hit. Be it person or property, it is still bad. In fact, the outcome could largely be a matter of luck. Consider throwing a rock. You can't wholly control where it lands or what it hits. Does it make sense that if you intended to damage something that your moral culpability is different based simply on the outcome?

Violence is a behavior. It is not defined by the receiver of the violence.