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What does it mean?
Violence should be kept as a mental concept rather than enacted physically.
In plain terms
Keep violence in your thoughts not actions.
What can you take from it?
Contain violent impulses within the mind.

Where it applies

  • conflict resolution
  • writing
  • self reflection

Putting it to work

  • practice de-escalation
  • write fictional conflict

Questions to consider

  • Where should violence belong?
  • Can violence be purely mental?

Another view

This advice could be dangerous if taken literally in self-defense scenarios.

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