(April 19, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Stimbo Wrote: None of that changes the fact of the language. It is what it is. The words are innocent; how people choose to use them is their own concern.
Right which is exactly my point. You don't assume the word itself has magic. People still will do what they want despite what they think a word means.
Ultimately evolution is what matters and in evolution our ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our species, the labels we assign ourselves or others.