Comment by dillondoyle
4 years ago
I think the definition of violence is a fair discussion. I think it has shifted a bit. To me words that cause physical harm is violence.
4 years ago
I think the definition of violence is a fair discussion. I think it has shifted a bit. To me words that cause physical harm is violence.
Words can't cause physical harm though. Only actions can.
Yes they can. People harm themselves all the time because of words.
People harm themselves. that's the action. thats the violence.
I can go online and say manga sucks. Somewhere, some kid is going to get very, very angry. He/she might even do something very irrational.
People who wish to equate words with violence do so solely to justify responding to words with violence. The goal here is to make it acceptable to kill you for what you say.
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Right, and zoomers would probably broadly agree with that, but almost everyone else doesn't, so it's very contentious. "Sticks and stones" liberals still basically control the world, at least until we start dying off in 30 years or so.
It's a lie. Saying words are violence is an attempt to make it so, not an observation.
People who say that are trying to use their words to force you to not have the right to use your words.
I'm not a zoomer.
I don't think it's as lopsided as you think. I think HN has a very strong, and fairly rigid, view on free speech.
And I think a much larger % than you imply see a grey area that is causing real, physical IRL harm.
It's hard to write down what I'm talking about. But it's pretty easy to see it.
Bullying has always caused physical harm. Both the kinetic type of pushing and this transitive type we are talking about.