Words are not violence, at least in the traditional sense of the word. Words do not physically damage ones body. However, I think in some contexts, we ought restrain ourselves, words can lead to great peace, or great physical harm, and not only of yourself.
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Here is S.E Cupp suggesting that people employ restraint wrt t their words/expression about Jr's divorce to prevent unnecessary emotional distress.https://twitter.com/secupp/status/974456169677848576 …
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And, for the sake of some balance, here is Chelsea Clinton doing effectively the same thing.https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/974420021790126080 …
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And these are examples from just this day. People clearly recognize that words can cause emotional distress.
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Yes. But where we don't restrain ourselves from causing emotional distress with our words, government ought not do it for us. If words were actually violence, that would not be true.
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Reading the article I couldn’t help being reminded of a topic that came up during some classes in law school regarding the so-called “sovereign citizen” movement and their beliefs about the Constitution and how laws actually function.
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SOVCITS believe they can make authoritative legal arguments in court by relying on essentially talismanic incantations of certain words or writing them in certain colored ink at a 45° angle.
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They hold this this belief despite all evidence that it has ever been employed successfully and would rather devote countless hours to trying to improve their bizarre incantations than study the laws which actually bear on their situation.
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It’s the bizarre insistence that the words contain some sort of power, separate and apart from the context and intent with which they’re used, which reminds me of the logocentrism issue discussed in the article. It’s just so bizarre.
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How ironically religious this seems: power of the word
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Do leftists address the question: What are the negative consequences of heavy handed word policing? Particularly since it’s been a key feature of totalitarianism. Because it seems that they believe that a societal paradise would be achieved if people only used the right language.
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