FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
1 – Violence and/or friction in last, very last resort it’s an existential right.
2- Gotama’s disapproval of suicide implies that he would approve the right to “self”-defense in an extremis situation , namely if and when your (stream of)life is really in danger.
3 (see 1 too) – basically there are 2 types of violence: physical and mental – there is violence as soon as the intention of it sprouts in your being as an urge or as a mental riposte…