Monday, January 13, 2014

Writing and Thinking without Venom

A word can be a horrible weapon -- calling someone a name, or accusing them of being unethical, or insinuating ulterior motives to someone -- all these put words out there as brutal and hurtful weapons. I would like to say that I have never spoken or written ill of anyone else --- but even in this simple blog that assertion is problematic.

Why? Because people have alternate views of the truth; because people disagree on what is real or not; because people view events differently.  From my point of view I can only try to be "venom-free"  but I cannot guarantee it. 

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