I'm a firm believer in the meaning behind the words rather than the words themselves. A girl turns to her friend and says "I love you b!t$h."
Let's look at the meaning behind those words, shall we?
At face value, the girl has said something very insulting to the other girl and she should be extremely offended. Then again, with all of the teen girl movies where best friends call each other by that name, it is now a "best friend" status sort of name. Enter my argument that meaning should be more important than anything else.
We all speak different languages, even within our own learned language, and words take on different meanings. It is the ability to QUESTION your own reaction to something and examine it further before causing a fight. No one can be completely definitive anymore, this is what makes it so important to question everything.
We spend a lot of time questioning the government, and a lot of time questioning other people and saying no one's perfect, but it is a perceived weakness if you question yourself. How will you learn if you don't question? How will you keep the love of your life if you do not question yourself before questioning them?
Change within ourselves, even the smallest change, brings around positive change in the world. If that change would begin with understanding, then we would be a better species for it.
