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>It does make me question though, where did society choose to draw the line and why is the line drawn there. The line moves, as and when someone in society get
by esyir 4y ago
>It does make me question though, where did society choose to draw the line and why is the line drawn there.
The line moves, as and when someone in society gets up in arms at exactly that and is sufficiently powerful to move it. See "mentally handicapped", "special needs", etcetera. A new word gets generated that's less "bad", but it doesn't resolve the issue that the concept it describes is fundamentally bad.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill