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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Sorry, but who coined it? It is in no way just a neutral term "to describe a concept". A judgment about the concept is inherent to the term.
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Counterexample: "murder". Very judgmental word there, laden with emotional buttons.
I guarantee, given sufficient motivation, you could find judgmentalism, from someone's perspective, about most words.
Words describe ideas. Ideas are used to label things and people. Usually we try to avoid falsely labeling people, but attempting to go wholly without labels is... idiotic. Two labels I can slap on you right here and now: you're "German" and you "read books".
Pretty much anything is bound to be offensive to someone out there -- it's a big world.
I *could* react in a highly illogical, devoid-of-facts manner to those labels, and associate your location with Nazis and progress from there to calling you an Anti-Semite (I am a religious Jew, BTW)... but that would be downright retarded, not least because I have no logical backing.
It is nevertheless true that both Nazis and Anti-Semites exist... however much of a label those words may be...
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And lazy: Instead of discussing different and surly controversial ideas, it is very easy to just dismiss it under a term.
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Well, that is why I suggested
people not be so quick to "just dismiss" people for utilizing a term, but rather to consider their argument/statement/whatever, and determine whether or not they are indeed being dismissive.
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Please ask yourself, would you in a face to face discussion, use such a term?
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No one here has yet put forth an even slightly convincing reason why not.
Instead, you have engaged in the slippery slope fallacy, by suggesting that anyone who utilizes a term you don't like to hear will automatically fail to provide any sort of reasoning.