Words are used to commit action.
That, IMO, is a very strained reading.
In one sense, actions are used to commit words -- these words only appear here because of the action of my fingers on the keyboad.
But I don't see how the words commit actions. Criticizing a person purely in words on this board (no facial expressions, no tone of voice, no hand raised in anger) isn't an act the way I use the term. I may be doing those things in the privacy of my home or office, but if you can't see or share them, they're not acts to you.
I think we're forgetting a key point -- the way any of us chooses to receive and deal with the words we read here is ENTIRELY up to us. If somebody calls me a traitor and I know I'm not one, what difference does it make if they call me that? If that's their opinion, that's their opinion, and they're entitled to it. It doesn't make it one whit more or less the fact that I am or am not a traitor.
People here tend to react to things that are said iin ways they choose to react, and then blame the author for their reaction. Nonsense. Only I am responsible for how I react to anything said here. If I get mad, or happy, or upset, or whatever, that is entirely within my control. Even the choice to read the words in the first place is within my control.
I think some of the people who choose to participate here (and it's a choice an increasing number of people are making recently) have to do a better job of accepting their responsibility for their responses to what is said here. |
