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Property damage is damage or destruction done to public or private property, caused either by a person who is not its owner or by natural phenomena. Property damage caused by persons is generally categorized by its cause: neglect (including oversight and human error), and intentional damage. Intentional property damage is often, but not always, malicious. Property damage caused by natural phenomena may be legally attributed to a person if that person's neglect allowed for the damage to occur.Intentional property damage may be considered a form of violence, albeit one usually (but not always) less dangerous than violence which does bodily harm to other living beings. For example, allowing a pacemaker to fail or a well to become poisoned may qualify as both property damage and bodily harm. On a similar note, certain forms of property damage may prevent bodily harm, such as breaking a piece of machinery that was about to injure a person. Some argue that property damage signalA signal may refer to: an abstract element of information, or, more exactly, usually a flow of information (in either one or several dimensions). See Signal (information theory . in electronics) a signal is any physical phenomenon that can be modeled as as a willingness to do bodily harm or otherwise intimidatesIntimidation is the act of making others do what one wants through fear. This may be fear of physical abuse, humiliation, loss of property, not only regarding the victim itself but also dear ones such as spouse, family, friend. Sometimes the phrase sexual the free flow of communicationCommunication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. Communication" is the academic discipline which studies communication. Forms of communication Animal communications Interpersonal communications Marketing Propa in politicalPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is or economicEconomics is the social science studying how society uses its limited resources to meet desires and wants. Put otherwise, economics studies what, how and for whom society produces. This involves analyzing the production, distribution and consumption of go debateDebate is a formalized system of (usually) logical argument. It is a rule-governed contest with two or more sides, presided by a judge. Each side is attempting to win the approval of a designated audience, such as a judge. Debate is a highly organized acts. Mohandas Gandhi was of this opinion, but nonetheless differentiated doing bodily harm from property damage, even if he thought both to be violence, which also he thought admissible in certain dire circumstance s.
The term vandalismVandalism is an act motivated by hostility to the arts and literature of a culture, or willful destruction or defacement of its built environment, construed to be in the spirit of the Germanic Vandals in their attacks on building of the Roman Empire. is often used synonymously with intentional property damage, although that term is often associated with superficial or aesthetic damage, such as defacement . When property damage is undertaken for the purpose of intimidating a government or society at large, it may be categorized as terrorism. In certain contexts, the relations between these terms are inextricably politicized. For example, the Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for a number of incidents of property damage, but claims to have never harmed a living being, and in fact has a doctrine forbidding members from doing so. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation classifies them as a "terrorist" group ostensibly because they send a political and ideological message with this destruction. Meanwhile, the United States Department of Defense restricts the term "terrorist" to groups that do actual bodily harm.
Property damage tactics have been part of the labor movement, peace movement, ecology movement, environmental movement and anti-globalization movement, among others. The infrastructural capital of loggers, miners, fishers, suburban housing developers , the mass media, employers who are subject to strike actions, and even military forces have been targeted. The property so targeted, in most cases with the notable exception of labor actions, tends to be that which is deemed to be causing or threatening some form of damage to living beings. Typical examples include Greenpeace sabotage of bulldozers, peace movement activists entering NATO bases by breaking fences, and Earth Liberation Front destruction of empty new homes that they deem to be imposing on the Arizona desert ecoregion.
