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- People who have found their "mission in life" often can be pretty abrasive about it, alienating friends and former colleagues -- especially when it's a "moral
by metabagel 5y ago
- People who have found their "mission in life" often can be pretty abrasive about it, alienating friends and former colleagues -- especially when it's a "moral imperative" mission like ending detainee abuse
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Let's call it "prisoner abuse", please. The word "detainee" should refer to someone who is in temporary custody.
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- webmaven 5y ago> The word "detainee" should refer to someone who is in temporary custody. We need a new word for people held indefinitely (technically temporarily, but with practically infinite renewals of a 'limited' term by a compliant judiciary). There will be an expansion of the sort of exigent circumstances used as justification for such treatment. This seems like a recurring antipattern, as with IP maximalists pushing for 'forever minus a day'[0] copyright terms (which, thankfully, seems to have abated, with works now entering the public domain every year). [0] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-December/094574.html http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-Decemb...