I’m getting really pissed off right now because of dumbass people who think words can’t hurt people

that words can’t possibly count as harassment or abuse

that because it’s words, they don’t count for defending people like children who are being mentally abused by their parents because it ‘shouldn;t count’ as child abuse because it’d impede on the parents’ right to ‘free speech’ or whatever dumb shit you want to call it

that someone who repeatedly stalks someone online telling them to kill themselves or using scare tactics and harassment, getting past blocks and making alt accounts, somehow shouldn’t be considered anything more than ‘just someone saying words’ and should just continue to get away with it and preying on CHILDREN and people with mental disabilities because apparently they have NO valid defense against ‘free speech’

yeah I’m sorry but if you really seriously think words cannot be used as a weapon, as a criminal offense, you have no concept of empathy whatsoever.