Only because weapons (nukes, carpet bombing, chemical warfare) have become so powerful they have been constrained by geopolitics. Words have been constrained as well — Rwandan genocide incitement radio is an outlier not the norm.
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That’s why I tried to limit comparison to individual weapons and words (small arms and individual media leverage). There are also ‘nukes’ on the words side I guess, at the level of court judgments or legislation for eg.
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The power of the word has shamed most major powers out of most direct military action, for what that's worth. Also, if code = word, that's a major power-up too
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I think if the power of words has had an effect in the last 500 years, it has been to change the perception of violence from one of good to one of necessary evil. Words amplify Swords, not dull them. They remind people that swords suck, particularly when they are inside you.
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To nukes, cbw and drones
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swords stink so much nowadays. especially considering that at any scale and anywhere on the world we are much more integrated and letting you use the sword depends much more on the opinion of everyone else with swords but the coin is stronger than both.
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If you count nukes and chemical weapons, I’d say it’s the swords that have an edge. Social media versus
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I think hyperlink is the key. Words can be used in the virtual and real world, whereas sword can be used only in real world, I admit may be some folks take their perso in a virtual world very seriously ( online games)
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