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It is also the case that harm can be subjectively defined as psychological, not physical harm. We know that many of the problems that we have—for example, on university campuses—happen when students arriving from school feel that it is appropriate to no-platform speakers whose views they consider to be psychologically harmful and interchangeable with violence. When words and speech are posited as the equivalent to physical force, that creates problems, and we should at least consider that. It is the case that the accusation of bullying can be weaponised—and regularly is, by the young pointing their fingers at each other for bullying.