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Why would you even need to say «call for violence» if speech were violence in itself? No one is opposing the fact that speech can be used to call for violence,
by redbar0n 1y ago
Why would you even need to say «call for violence» if speech were violence in itself?
No one is opposing the fact that speech can be used to call for violence, but that doesn’t make the speech itself violence. The speech part of it is the «call for» or «incitement to» or even «lead to». But we must not mix up cause and effect.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago> Why would you even need to say «call for violence» if speech were violence in itself? Because violence can take forms other than speech. > that doesn’t make the speech itself violence This is not something I agree with. If I say something and hearing what I say makes you reasonably feel afraid or hurt, I have said something violent. If I say something about physically harming another person, I have said something violent. The speech itself is violence.