"None of the activities described here resulted in physical harm to anyone."

GUEST, have you ever been kicked in the crotch? Or had tear gas sprayed directly into your face from six inches away?

Or consider the shop owner who gets his front windows smashed out and/or his shop set on fire? The shop owner may not suffer bodily harm, but if the damage was done during a demonstration for a particular cause, that might make me somewhat less sympathetic to that cause--certainly to the demonstrators.

Vandalism is vandalism. Trying to gain attention for a good cause by destroying other people's property seems counter-productive to me.

Don Firth