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It's never this black and white.
It's it violence if you're stopping someone else's violence?
If you defend yourself with force against an attacker that means to do you significant harm or end your life, is that still violence?
When do we cross the line between violence and self defense? When is it a crime and when is it ok?
If someone does some happy shooting into the air and a bullet comes down on someone 100 miles away, killing them, is that violence? If it doesn't harm anyone is the happy shooting still violence?
Nothing is as black and white as you seem to want to believe.
I'm with Luigi. Bluntly, that CEO was, in my opinion, causing significant harm to people unnecessarily. Denying coverage when something is clearly covered, having non-medical people weigh in on whether a procedure or treatment is medically necessary.... People literally died and suffered by his hands, and his polities; but he gets a pass because he caused all that harm with a pen instead of a knife?
I guess to you, Hitler was a fine person who didn't kill anyone. He commanded armies to kill, sanctioned gas chambers and the deaths of millions of people just because... But since he was only giving orders, he's not guilty of committing any violence, right? Do you think Hitler's family also deserves justice for his death?
Hopefully you recognize how stupid you sound.