Correctness

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Or at least so the saying goes. Clearly however this saying is lost in translation from being spoken of theoretically to the actual world we live in. Through the sound emitted by ones vocal chords should not have a way to harm another. We have found a way to take offense to this. And thus, the concept known as political correctness is born. It is odd, that a method of thinking supports that such decibels audible to the general population be altered in written and spoken form to simply preserve one's "feelings." The true harm towards one another is distributed emotionally, or physically. But verbally? And even speech not intended to spite another. Could someone truly take offense to Lincoln not using "foremothers and forefathers" but rather just "forefathers" in his famous Gettysburg Address?  Could someone really listen to one of the great speeches in our nations history and think nothing of its purpose, but simply of its inclusiveness? It is quite a path that our society has taken, where even the smallest thing that could be found offensive, is found offensive, and this is something that I hope to see reversed, or resolved throughout the course if my life.