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Please stop trying to police language.
by fdsaaf 10y ago
Please stop trying to police language.
- Eric_WVGG 10y agoIf you seriously believe that the structure and way that language is expressed doesn't have real world implications, and you are a programmer, hacker, or in IT in an capacity, may I suggest that maybe you take a little time off and think about the world for a while?
- wpietri 10y agoDefinitely. It's an even weirder thing to grumble about here, in that the language change is the means to an end: saving lives. If somebody were getting all riled up about tomayto versus tomahto), I'd say that a complaint about policing language was reasonable; that really is purely a language thing. But generally when I hear it somebody is actually opposed to a substantive change but won't come right out and say it. That always seems weird to me. You'd think somebody so excited about being able to say what they want would, y'know, say what they want.
- fdsaaf 10y agoA great deal of evil has been done in the name of saving lives and souls. Your good intentions do not excuse the long history of thought policing leading to injustice and misery.
- wpietri 10y agoA great deal of evil has been done in the name of pretty much anything good, but that doesn't mean that any of those things is bad. If you believe that this particular request leads to injustice and misery, feel free to make a case for it. But as far as I can see, this is asking people to think of something in a more useful way.
- Dylan16807 10y agoYour comment is a non-sequitur. "Please don't police X" does not imply that "X has no real world implications".