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Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by future_unclear on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:54PM (#24510946)
Words cannot cause trauma. The mind engages with words in such a way that leads to trauma.
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Re:UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a thre... by jlokier on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:39PM (#24547556)
The question is about an ordinary meaning of "harm".

If you want to push back at that meaning on a technicality, is there anything called harm that is not, ultimately, dependent on how a mind engages with it?

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