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Those are in conflict with equality because they deeply exploit people´s differences and there is no valid source that will contradict general and personal experience. For example, when the insults are turned against a loved one, --sister, partner, mother, son, daughter,-- people naturally react with anger, or worse, because they are meant to do damage. So, if we want equality, why do we divide?
Regardless of how outnumbered I may be, I am offended by the deep rage some of those words carry and have seen their effects: words have power that cannot be ignored. I try to write from knowledge with experience, not for competition, so I repeat it because it is important for discourse towards any real equality.
I hope I have measured all words properly enough to avoid unwarranted anger. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
You appear to be attempting to resurrect a previous argument for no reason in the face of the facts. That is trolling. Stop it.
Calling a person a scumbag would then be saying a person is offering the world a value equivalent to a bag of skin full of scum. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Long time no see, I'm glad we found a topic worthy of your interest. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
thought you were investigating green scum in davy jones' locker, your blog has been so dead in the water, and no sign of you here for months!
this place has really gone downhill since you left, everyone's using capital letters so traditionally, hope you stick around and bless us with some good lowercase, full page soliloquies again, lol.
jeez, you've been missed, welcome back!
:)
does happy summersault 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
They're carefully picking "scumbag" precisely because it isn't sexual in nature.
There aren't many really nasty insults left in English when you start pruning the sexual ones, and you can't have scumbag.
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