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____/ Homer on Tuesday 02 Feb 2010 19:41 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Doesn't the word "Evil" have a religious root/connotation?
>
> But that's not the context I personally use the word in.
>
>> The word "Evil" can be used to justify religious fanaticism.
>
> Or political fanaticism, which is just as common.
>
> Your concerns are justified, but misplaced. You should worry about the
> propagandists more than their hijacked language of propaganda.
The BBC keeps saying "theft" and "piracy" in a show about the Internet (one that I saw
last night). After a while it's easy to become sensitive to words like
"instability" (usually regime or activity /we/ don't like) and "terrorism",
which is increasingly the same, even for domestic dissidence.
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