The "say words, get X punishment" complaint is one of the purest forms of bad-faith hypocrisy I've seen become popular, across my whole life. The simple reason

The "say words, get X punishment" complaint is one of the purest forms of bad-faith hypocrisy I've seen become popular, across my whole life. The simple reason it is hypocritical is that the complaint is predicated at once on the two mutually exclusive ideas that words are critically important (since "X" is frequently some kind of censorship, or at least a discouragement) and also that words are meaningless and have no real effects.