Words matter, a lot: What President Trump fails to understand about speech and moral responsibility

Lastly, these effects happen not regarding atomized individuals, but within society’s interconnected whole. When individuals — or, worse, leaders — use language to inflict degradation, this affects people, influences people, and spreads across society. It is such words that both constitute actions themselves, affecting people’s emotional lives with utmost gravity, and lead to concrete actions, with potentially deadly costs.

Noah Lawrence

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