I suspect it is fundamentally hard to think of language as a weapon. Trying to weaponize language is like trying to weaponize a kitchen. Sure there are knives and acids and stuff, but it's mainly designed to cook, not kill. Ditto language: designed to communicate, not damage.
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Like a hammer, language has great utility as a weapon. Language can be used to effectively change people's behavior in all sorts of ways: it has weapon-like characteristics. The solution may be to contextualize language to defuse its potential as a tool to inflict harm.
12:46 PM - 3 Nov 2018
from Cambridge, MA
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