Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-31532017-20160918070231

Have you heard of the quote "Think before you speak ? I'm sure most of you have heard it at least once in your lifetime, whether or not you heard it from your family members or friends is not important, but what's important is that do you know the true purpose of this quote ?

I assumed most of you might say "yes" or "yeah", if you do, then re-read that sentence again, you'll notice that I put the word "purpose", what you're thinking right now is the meaning of the quote, not the purpose of the quote, but the meaning of the quote. Now, you might be thinking something like this "The purpose of this quote serves as reminder to us that we should think before we speak so that we would avoid speaking any hurtful words while we're having a conversation", if you're thinking something like that, then you're half-right.

You heard me, you are half-right, because that purpose isn't the true intended purpose of the quote, but it is related to the intended purpose in some way depending on how you look at it. Now, for what I'm about to say, you're might think that I'm crazy or a delusional person who has no idea what's he talking about, but trust me, I'm not.

Now as crazy as it might sound, the intended purpose of this quote is to prevent deaths from occurring, you heard me correctly, it's used to prevent deaths from occurring. "How?" Think about it this way, how many people have gotten arrested based on false accusations, and how many after being released from jail committed suicide?

That might not seem a lot, but think a little bit more, how many of your schoolmates spread propaganda around each other? They're exchanging hateful and angry words towards each other, one says he's gonna kill the other, the other teen gets scared and calls to his brother for help. Guess what happens? One will be killed obviously. You might think that the chances for such a scenario like this to even happen is almost impossible, but it did, a such unfortunate accident happened. But with a twist, the friend of the teen who said that he was gonna kill was the one who was murdered, he was just at the wrong, at the wrong time.

But let's go even further, do you remember those times when your younger siblings or a friend told you that there was a monster behind the closet or under the bed ? Sure, all of us remembered, and how they were so wrong, yet they were still insisting that there was a monster, although not all of them are willing to lie just to prove their right, some will and they'll go to the extend of simply faking evidence. Sure, they're just kids and they want somebody to believe them, but what if I change that a little bit.

Do you have that one friend who believes everything on the internet? Well, if you're well in your school, you might have one such friend, they might go to the extend of wasting their time to prove you wrong. Their willingness to prove you wrong, anybody's for that matter, until they have been proven wrong, not all will move on.

Those who didn't move on, their willingness will turn into an obsession, and they'll be desperate to prove you or anybody else wrong, despite them being fully-100% wrong. If you don't get what I'm trying to say till this point, that's understandable.

What if I say this, imagine god, nobody can truly prove his existence, but yet nobody can disprove it, although this is highly subjective, but it's much easier to explain it this way. There are people still worshiping god despite not being proven to be real, right, and how many attempted to prove his existence? On the other hand, how many people had made attempts to disprove god's existence, to simply put, nothing can coexist without being proven or disprove.

As a result, there are gonna be some people who are willing to do extreme things just to prove that god exists, there have been actual cases like what I've said just now, that means this is no longer a theory, this is an actual fact at this point. However, at the same time this can be used as a theory for anything that hasn't been proven to be real, imagine this.

If every serial killer or person who used the dark web were convinced that red rooms or murder rooms, which is a urban legend, didn't existed, what scenario will most likely to happen? There will be a lot of people who would attempt to create such a thing, think about this, how many people wanted to create something that hasn't existed yet or was proven to not exist?

By saying it don't exist, especially about something that can be created by humans, you're indirectly responsible for its creation, whether or not you care, now imagined this. If every serial killer or person who used the dark web knows that red rooms or murder rooms exist, how many would truly attempt to create such a thing? Not much, after all who want to recreate something that somebody else has already did?

Deaths could have been easily avoided if you all thought properly and carefully before you spoke anything, but sadly even with deaths or incidents occurring, not everybody will learn their lesson nowadays due to their arrogance, this is why this quote will lose its function for its intended purpose. But I hope that you do, now.

Now that you know that the consequences of speaking without thinking can be deadly, I got a final question for you, what about doing something without thinking then? If a few words can be so dangerous already, what about doing something that may seem harmless to you? 