[ExI] Worst ever

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 20:01:58 UTC 2020


On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:11 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *whenever someone is called "evil" these days, it is almost always
> politically-motivated hyperbole.*


If you believe the word "evil" can never be properly used in the sentence,
as it appears you do, does that mean you think the word should be abolished
from the English language as Orwell abolished words in Newspeak in 1984?
Newspeak dictionaries got smaller each year, should the same thing happen
for English dictionaries?

John K Clark
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