[omeid2]

"A single text" is an absurd reductionism.

People suffer worst than death over words all the time, even in the West. Some folks adhere to honour, some to political groups and ideologies, some religion, some to their social views; there are words that are treated as violence and responded to accordingly in every context.

[g-b-r]

Accordingly would be with (violent) words.

Could you tell us where you're from, anyhow?