Your words define your actions, and your actions define you.

     At first when I was given this idea that actions define you, I thought it was as simple as that. That actions define who you are. But after reading this article my whole point of view had been changed, the article shows an example of a man, a man Hauls at a man and punches them in their face then walks away, and says nothing. Sounds like a criminal type right? but if he says, "If you ever touch my ten year old daughter again I'll do worse!" Then it's a whole different ball game, people root for the man then, but previously they would be on the other mans side, the man who gets punched would be the victim here. But just a few words and its a different story, this is an example that shows that if an action is done without words it could be less reasonable than it would be if you spoke out.

     It is not only the action that defines who you are, it could be the difference of being either a hero or an evil-doer, it is also the words which define you. For instance, if you saw a man with a gun and he pulls the trigger, and then the man of who was being aimed at drops, you would immediately infer that he shot him. But there is always a back story to everything that you see, he could be shooting some type of fake bullet and the other man drops as a form of acting. In that sort of situation you might have accidently done something extreme, perhaps running at the armed murderer and pushing him off the cliff. Now that would be bad, one thing you have to do before making extreme decisions, is that you have to observe everything that happened very very closely, otherwise you might end up throwing someone off the cliff!! 

     I'm sure I'm not the only one that made this mistake, but one time, I saw two kids with their fists in a ball and swinging at each other, I immediately thought it was a full on fight, but they were doing near miss punches (a form of play fighting where you swing at the target but nearly miss/skin them). I broke up the fight and I ended up stupid breaking up a play fight... I'm starting to get off track here... What I'm trying to say is without words, you can't really be sure of the actions that are being presented to you, words define an action, and actions define you.