By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
We are living in interesting times when the ether and the airwaves are full of surging angry rhetoric; when talking with one another in civility seems beyond reach and shouts, screams and insults take over."Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," goes an old phrase that kids repeat on the school ground -- until someone is knocked to the ground in a fistfight.
"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed," said American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson; Lord Buddha said, "The tongue like a sharp knife ... kills without drawing blood." And the Turks say, "A knife wound heels; a wound caused by words does not."
Today, I would like to begin with the words from the Foundation of Critical Thinking, which confirms how thinking and writing are no simple matter. The foundation guides us on "How to say something worth saying about something worth saying something about."
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