A investigation found that human activities (even recreation and hunting) tend globally to disturb animals' patterns of movement, which can harm them in various ways.

Thugs in Rochester, New York, handcuffed a nine-year-old girl, then pepper-sprayed her.

I am sure that one full-grown adult cop can restrain a nine-year-old. What did they do before pepper spray was invented?

It was incidents like this that inspired the campaign to "defund the police", which concretely means to train mental health responders and send them instead. They would have known a better way to respond to that call.

The Indian government told Twitter to turn off the accounts of dissidents and news sites, and Twitter did it, for a while.

AOC described how she hid and fled from rioters inside the Capitol, fearing for her life.

She also pointed out a resemblance between the way trumpets evade recognizing the wrong of their actions and the way domestic abusers do so.

All this was in service of demanding due punishment for those who participated in or supported the attack on the Capitol, including some Republicans in Congress.

AOC referred to a past experience by saying that she was a "survivor of sexual assault."

AOC would not exaggerate. The attack that she refers to must have been a grave and traumatizing one, one that justifies the term "survivor."

I suggest therefore that "sexual assault" is not a good term to describe it, because that term covers a spectrum of actions that stretch from the most grave, such as rape, to minor things like a stolen kiss on the forehead, along with all the territory in between. Between the ends of that spectrum there is a great gulf: it would be ridiculous to call someone a "survivor of a stolen kiss." We should not equate a kisser to a rapist.

Therefore, when we talk about grave and traumatizing attacks, let's use a term which is limited to grave and traumatizing attacks.

Planting hedges can be as good as planting trees.