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Your argument doesn't make any sense. You fund something when it has too little money. You defund something when it has too much money. If you wanted to abol
by Wiseacre 5y ago
Your argument doesn't make any sense.
You fund something when it has too little money.
You defund something when it has too much money.
If you wanted to abolish or eliminate something you would use those words, not defund.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI'm talking about the word "defund" in the vernacular. Which, for many people, absolutely does also imply abolish or eliminate. As a thought experiment, I'm going to conjure a slogan: "Defund the Humane Society". What is the first thing that comes to mind? I expect most people would think "you want to get rid of the animal shelter?" And I would reply, "no what I actually want is to re-allocate money from the euthanasia program so that we can have increased adoption rates and make this a no-kill shelter." Putting aside the vernacular implications of "defund", my slogan is totally ineffective at actually capturing what I am trying to accomplish. And, it has the added downside of giving people a terrible and inaccurate first impression.