[Libertina]

Would that sometimes be evil though, rather than violence? I can think of situations of evil, which would not be violent. Are we too sloppy with our vocabulary? But in any case, I'm pretty sure a mean look is not violence. (Though a malevolent stare could show evil.)

[Consort]

I'll revise to "Violence is applied malice." Interpreting "violence" and "evil" broadly, I think all violence (by humans, not in nature) is evil, and malice is evil..I'm getting confused. Let's try: "Violence is applied malice and malice is applied evil."

[.30Carbine]

It's as if the Democratic Party, the Establishment Media, and the National Education Association all got together, picked up a copy of George Orwell's 1984, and started applying what they read therein to every action they performed thereafter, as though Orwell's words were a feasible treatise on how to run a well-ordered society.

"In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words - in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?"