diff --git a/Open Letter to Moloch.md b/Open Letter to Moloch.md
index a13d0f38c..2481b13bc 100644
--- a/Open Letter to Moloch.md	
+++ b/Open Letter to Moloch.md	
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This is our plan to defeat you, [[Moloch]]:
 
 We will do it in the open.
 
-We will do it without the violence that characterizes you. We will do it with [[loving kindness]], with [[sympathetic joy]], with [[compassion]].
+We will do it without the violence that seems to characterize you. We will do it with [[loving kindness]], with [[sympathetic joy]], with [[compassion]].
 
 We will do it by focusing on the [[Commons]], by (co-)[[Federating]], by advancing [[Liquid Democracy]].