the term is diluted so that when the next real activist judge comes along, we'll have to throw in parenthetical comments and footnotes to explain what the phrase used to mean.
All the better for the forces of evil, yes? It's just like Orwell said. If you degrade the language for precisely discussing the goodness/badness of things, you can shut that discussion right down.
What better way to stop allegations of wrong-doing, than pith the meaning of the terms for wrongs?
You missed the plusgood side effect
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the term is diluted so that when the next real activist judge comes along, we'll have to throw in parenthetical comments and footnotes to explain what the phrase used to mean.
All the better for the forces of evil, yes? It's just like Orwell said. If you degrade the language for precisely discussing the goodness/badness of things, you can shut that discussion right down.
What better way to stop allegations of wrong-doing, than pith the meaning of the terms for wrongs?