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OK, I take it you're using violence in a neutral sense to describe force directed at causing bodily injury or death. Absolutely, self-defense is violence. If someone else has decided that it's either you or them, rather than peacefully solving whatever dispute they have, then they're basically asking you if you consider your values of non-aggression more worthy than theirs of aggression, your life over theirs.