I'm afraid of the lines I see being drawn, and they don't feel metaphorical. I should have known we'd pull out the battle metaphors in the end. If words are weapons and argument is battle, then I like to think we're sparring over an issue that matters. It's something worth fighting for. But I myself shy away from this idea of waging war with words.
Words are destructive, yes, but they're also generative.
Kevin Hunt, an Assistant Editor of CMC Magazine , is a doctoral student studying Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer. He's struggling to find a healthy balance between the physical and the virtual. All Rights Reserved.