Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
That was once a playground truth, a resilience we were encouraged to carry into adult life.
But today, we live in a culture where words are treated as violence, and yet real violence is dismissed as politics, protest, or “context.”
The tragic killing of Charlie Kirk in the United States is a reminder: bullets in the neck are not metaphors. They are not “hurt feelings.” They are final.
We must stop criminalizing speech and excusing violence. Offence is taken, never given.
When words are treated as crimes, but violence is tolerated or justified, society crosses a line it may never return from.
This cannot stand. Enough is enough.
“Hope isn’t what they promise you. It’s how you carry on when they don’t deliver.” — Dave Carrera
