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Comment author: Dahlen 14 January 2015 11:17:46PM 6 points [-]

If I may phrase this as a retort...

There are different degrees of precision between "covers 1% of possible cases" and "covers 100% of possible cases". Unless the audience is children 5 and under (here's that thing about thresholds again), "violence" is much too general.