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The troubling part is the equivalence between speech and violence. I fundamentally don't believe that information can be violent in any way. It can facilitate v
by kinghajj 11y ago
The troubling part is the equivalence between speech and violence. I fundamentally don't believe that information can be violent in any way. It can facilitate violence, surely (the plans to a nuclear bomb come to mind,) but it is never inherently violent because information in itself can do nothing.
- Ygg2 11y ago> I fundamentally don't believe that information can be violent in any way. Then congrats on never suffering verbal abuse. Words can hurt and information in itself can do a lot of things in a right(or wrong) context. For example. You arrive in a communist hating community (let's pretend it's during the Red scare). Someone accuses you of being a communist. Witch hunt ensues.
- kinghajj 11y ago> Then congrats on never suffering verbal abuse. define: violence "behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something." It's clear that the meaning of "violence" is physical, not emotional. > Someone accuses you of being a communist. Witch hunt ensues. As I said: "It can facilitate violence, surely".
- Ygg2 11y agoListen, downvote all you like, but it seems you never were on the wrong end of verbal abuse. Trust me a well sharpened remark, can be waaaaay more painful than a gut punch. I never said witchhunt needed to end with violence. You can become black sheep, losing job, family, friends without a single follicles of your hair being torn. Your freedom could be taken, without you suffering any violence, e.g. house arrest.