<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:11 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>whenever someone is called "evil" these days, it is almost always politically-motivated hyperbole.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">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?</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>