> No word can actually harm you directly. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is something told to children in the playground

> No word can actually harm you directly. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is something told to children in the playground who are too young to know better. You might as well argue that there's no such thing as malware, because its entirely harmless until executed on a processor.