If we are to consider care as a value with the same significance as justice, it should be conceivable that we could extend this to build a concept of an ethics of violence. This is not about setting violence and violent acts as desirable in all of their forms, but to recognise violence as a set of actions in relationship with those of care, rather than necessarily in strict opposition. Where violence functions as an instrument of power, it emerges particularly when that power is threatened or challenged. In this paper, I extend, through the metaphorics of textile, the concept of an ethics of care to include the affordance of agency to reject caring acts and actions and question the need or right to repair and reparation that potentially deletes the violence of the rupture.
