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I'm very confused here, I'm neither having an issue with taking organs from animals nor with killing them for food. I do, technically, have an issue with our m
by ffsm8 2y ago
I'm very confused here, I'm neither having an issue with taking organs from animals nor with killing them for food.
I do, technically, have an issue with our modern meat production, which ia a straight up horror show - for the animals and for the people growing them, but that's entirely unrelated to this case here.
As far as my knowledge of the word "donation" goes, it means that someone voluntarily gave something to another, and the person giving is the donor.
I'm not an authority for the English language, so maybe donation can also apply to a scenario in which something is taken with no active consent. In that case the term would also apply to theft though, that makes me kinda doubt that...?
But I guess we can go with that.
- drivingmenuts 2y agoThe TLDR explanation is that words have a denotative meaning, what the word actually means, and a connotative meaning, whis are the ideas and concepts that surround the word. Even though the word usage may seem like a lie, most people understand what is meant. https://www.dictionary.com/e/denotation-vs-connotation/# https://www.dictionary.com/e/denotation-vs-connotation/#
- ffsm8 2y agoI read through it from top to bottom but still feel that this usage of donor is severely stretching it. All the examples there make sense to me, and none of them go against the core definition of the world their using to explain the concept. As far as I know, the term donor is defined to mean that the entity voluntarily gave something. Using it in a context without the entity being willing still seems to be invalid to me, but as I said: I'm by no means an authority on the English language