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Your definition of violence appears to equate things done to objects and things done to people.

Failing to differentiate between these things makes me wonder are you some sort of animist?

Doing things to objects that belong to other people is doing things to those people.

Sure, for two different definitions of "doing things". But the existence of different definitions is precisely the point.

Unless you are claiming that cutting someone's paper is equal to cutting their skin?

Eh, one would need to cut a lot of skin to hurt me as much as one would by cutting one of my father's paintings