You know, it's funny. If someone attacked you with a knife and scarred you, the courts would assess the physical damage--how long a scar, how many stitches it took to close the wound, whatever--and they'd come up with a figure that you'd be entitled to in compensation. But hurting someone with words that they'll always remember? With an act they'll never forget? That's physical damage, too--it changes you just as permanently as a scar. But instead of tallying up what the compensation should be, we just say, 'Get over it,' or 'You should develop a thicker skin,' or--and this is ironic, given that it's the one thing that's impossible--'you should just forget about it.