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Sticks and stones

24 May 2013 by 4 Comments

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

—xkcd

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  1. Mary says
    24 May 2013 at 07:28

    Ah, the famous saying from people who mean “I have no interest in your problems.”

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  2. Foxfier says
    24 May 2013 at 23:36

    My folks’ was better– “sticks and stones can break your bones, but words only do the harm you allow.” When questioned, they’d admit that the allowing part was NOT easy.

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  3. Stephen J. says
    29 May 2013 at 15:14

    Robert Fulghum once commented on this, “Sticks and stones can break our bones, but words can break our hearts….”

    It can be one of the few places where the Golden Rule is problematic, because “Do as you would be done by” can be inverted to mean “If it wouldn’t hurt me coming from you, I need not concern myself with saying it to you.” It’s tricky because the very insensitivity being recommended is the self-same thing that makes it difficult to grasp why it may be hard, or even undesireable, to achieve.

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