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Harmful actions—psychological, institutional, or physical—taken against those who reject physicalism or who hold beliefs that physicalism deems impossible (e.g., life after death, telepathy, non‑physical consciousness). Physicalist violence includes forced psychiatric treatment for spiritual experiences, denial of academic advancement to dualist philosophers, and harassment of parapsychology researchers. It is often justified by claims that non‑physicalist beliefs are dangerous, anti‑science, or indicative of mental illness. The violence is systemic when institutions (e.g., mental health systems, universities) enforce physicalist orthodoxy as a condition of legitimacy.
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