It's not the words. It's the sentiment. In the 80s they stopped using the word retarded and substituted the word special. So all us kids started using special as an insult.
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Sounds like the incentive behind how Newspeak was created.
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If you could but it only worked once, which word would it be?
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well, pretty quickly people would start shooting other things. conflict is unavoidable.
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Even beyond a battle, some words were adopted long ago & deviate from their original meaning. My biggest one is "cynical."
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Dangerous language games
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"Dog-whistle"
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Taking tools away doesn’t take intent away, people would still find a way to hurt each other, eventually.
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I think we shouldn’t prohibit ways of damage but generate systems of incentives for people to not want to do it in the first way.
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