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You can have violence without killing people, for example in torture the goal is generally not to kill the recipient.

And if a doctor has a surgery that goes bad and the patient died, they may have killed someone, but there was no violence.

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But you can't have killing without violence.

I guess if you get extremely broad with the term but starvation isn't often classified as violence.

If the starvation is intentional it's a kind of violence ?

Smallpox, radiation leaks, freezing to death etc are all causes of death that can be engineered but not generally labeled as violence. What definition are you using?

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