Humans are not emotionless robots who can interpret the intention of a sentence without being influenced by the way in which it is constructed. If you use a wor

Humans are not emotionless robots who can interpret the intention of a sentence without being influenced by the way in which it is constructed. If you use a word with negative connotations, people will react more negatively to your sentence than if you don't, regardless of your intent. It might be "pointless" but it is a simple reality of human behaviour, and it is even more pointless to complain about people being human.