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I would have probably died tbh. That doesn't mean you can.

I don't think you got my meaning from this. It wasn't meant to be sarcastic but it was meant to reflect terrible realities. Yes it does suck if you can't afford housing or treatment. It's a harsh reality and society should do better, but at the same time, the ether of society can't help everyone. It's the ideal (hence the story of Jesus helping everyone; the perfection no human can be), but not the reality. You can only control yourself, not others.

Now that's a good example of passive violence.

Words are not violence. Speech is not violence. I'm not budging here. You posted a link, but all that shows is how the definition is changing in ways it shouldn't. There are already words for what you describe: neglect.

Neglect isn't violence. It can still be bad. There is "criminal negligence," but that's different from "assault."

TruthStream Media do a lot of videos where they look up words in old dictionaries. They have one from every decade. It's so interesting to see how words change (the term "mainstream" didn't exist at the turn of the century It's less than 100 years old). I would hypothesizes dictionaries from the 30s would characterize violence as I have, while more recent dictionaries have started to change it to the definition you stated.

Calling speech violence or creating a new definition of "passive violence," is how you erode the freedom to speak and the freedom to think. Negligence is not violence. I did NOT commit a violence on you. That redefinition of the term is not a direction I think humanity should go down.

True and I never said otherwise. But you can't deny that not being able to get any of this reasonably or after participating in society for so long is not alienating.

It's bad, sure. It's alienating. But if you're not entitled to it, then what are we talking about? Some people exchange enough value to get money or positions to allow medical care. Some have family who can help. Others have to forgo dignity and beg on that American crowd funding healthcare site: GoFund Me 😅

It's bad, but in 1924, would you be better or worse? How about 1954? How much of it is really about health care versus not having terrible food supplies that are killing us? I don't know what the solution is, but I tend to side towards personal responsibility (or family/tribe responsibility) over expecting a greater society of government to care about the masses.

I dunno. A lot to think about for sure :blobcatshrug: