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It's fair. What's unfair is to use the wrong words, which create the wrong worlds. When your pet barks, do you call it cat? Humans are blessed with a higher le
by chiefalchemist 3y ago
It's fair. What's unfair is to use the wrong words, which create the wrong worlds. When your pet barks, do you call it cat?
Humans are blessed with a higher level of communication, there's no reason to abuse it. There's no good reason to be lazy. There's no good reason to take pride in negligence.
Step up. Lean in. Or for the sake of truth and justice, just shut up*. We've got enough noise to have to contend with fools who effectively don't know green from yellow.
* Not you, but the collective of people who believe Orwellian newspeak-y speak it ok.
- Finnucane 3y agoThey’re bloody racists, so fuck them.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoThe only people(s) who get fucked by wrong, lazy, and ambiguous communication is the sender and the receiver. That is, using the wrong words gives the subject matter a free pass. How can something be addressed and resolved when there's deception and ambiguity? p.s. Hating haters isn't exactly clean and consistent either. But that's another chat for another day.