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Maybe to avoid the ambiguity we could use the terms "political power" and "personal power."
by protonfish 7y ago
Maybe to avoid the ambiguity we could use the terms "political power" and "personal power."
- apatters 7y agoThe article uses the terms power and freedom, and explicitly defines them. > I would define power as the ability to make other people do what you want; freedom is the ability to do what you want.
- protonfish 7y agoI don't think it's cool to take a common and ambiguous term like "power" and claim that it will now only refer to a single, narrow meaning. It's not constructive. Better to qualify the term in a way that everyone in the discussion knows what you are talking about.
- ummonk 7y agoSince we're discussing a linked article, it is perfectly reasonable for people to use the terms that have been defined early in the linked article.
- chibg10 7y agoThe original author clearly has a point to make and providing an explicit definition of the relevant terms helps communicate them. If you want to discuss something else about "power", the comment section of this article is probably the wrong place to do so.