New frontiers in moral entrepreneurship: It's apparently no longer ok to say someone 'committed' suicide. You have to say 'died of suicide'. Like, I dunno, a suicide fell out of the sky on their head, or a stranger threw a suicide at them.
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Replying to @lyrra_sark @datawench
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This is rubbish. There are plenty of symptoms that are also actions: chorea, snoring.
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In normal use, one simply “snores.” And I’m not sure what the convention is for chorea. “Exhibits”? I think that whether an action is voluntary probably has a lot to do with its conventional usages.
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In the case of homicide pursuant to a psychological defect, one says 'committed murder during a manic episode' or some such.
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The justification I got when doing mental health training was that “committed” implies a criminal act and reduces empathy to the person who suffered depression. “Completed” was the preferred nomenclature, as there are also so many attempts that don’t...complete.
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That being said, I think it gives too much credit to words affecting thought. That doesn’t mesh with how other words and phrases change meaning over time—the thinking behind them changes, not the other way around.
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In practice, it mostly seems to offer people the opportunity to crash into other people's lives and lecture them smugly on their linguistic sins. Which is practically the national sport at this point.
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