I think it is hard to list all the situations but in the end it boils down to situations where both you personally as the person considering using violence and the average person could live with that decision in the long term. Both because that covers situations where you personally are a lot less or a lot more concerned with the consequences of your actions than the average person. And the average person instead of every single person because there are always some individuals whose views on the matter are a bit too extreme to be practical. Maybe instead of the average person it might make sense to use something like “90% of the population” but in the end you can’t measure things that accurately anyway.
When all passive and non-violent options have been thoroughly exhausted.
There can be only enough times when asking someone nicely to stop what they're doing, before prompting a smack upside the head to get it through to them.
@ReallyKinda only the amount of force necessary to repel an immediate and ongoing attack on one's life or body, or someone else's life or body, is ethical to me.
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