Words with responsibility

Just read a news article about a tertiary student 'threatening' to bomb the Malaysian Prime Minister's helicopter on TheStar "Student detained after bomb threat on Facebook".

There are times when we say things jokingly just merely for an expression for nothing. Basically, we don't really mean what it says. It's all just for entertainment/effect/satisfaction.

To certain extend, I guess there's no harm at all. But there's a line which after we've crossed, then things can be taken 'too seriously' as in it may be taken as a 'reality' rather than just a mere 'joke'.

This is when somebody gets hurt, either the subject of the speech or the person saying the 'words'

There was this movie, can't remember what the title is, but in one scene, a person told the other that all the phone lines and internet are 'tabbed' by the secret service, and when certain high priority words are mentioned, e.g. president, bomb, terrorist, etc, then you will be on their watch-list.

But that was in the movie. This Facebook incident in Malaysia is a reality. Meaning, we are accountable for our 'words' (normally put as 'we are accountable for our own actions').

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With the story aside, on the same note, I wonder why certain people are very irresponsible with what they do and what they say.

They make fun of others for their own entertainment, say things about others which they think is funny and can appeal to the audience at that particular time.

But they never gave some thought about what they said can actually hurt others. What they said, can sometimes have a ripple-effect, spreading in all directions, so fast like wildfire, giving terrible consequences to the victim.

And when questioned, they often just say "It's my mouth what, I have the right to say anything I want".

Words though not like sticks and stones, cannot break one's bone, but they can be more hurtful breaking something more important, the heart.............