Pete,Sep 20 2005, 05:55 PM Wrote:Hi,
Exactly why I feel that we need words like 'liberal' and 'conservative' in their general and unpoliticized form. Once we allow someone to make the 'liberal is only Democrat' or 'conservative is only Republican' association, we have both robbed the language of the ability to discuss philosophies outside of group mentality and 'forced' opinions onto people who may not agree with those specific opinions.
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These two words have come to mean so many different things that they have become kind of pointless without some other way to describe them. I, say, I "dress conservatively", that either means I walk around in suits all the time, or have lots of plain clothes, or get cheap for their quality clothes. Fooling around with definitions for other non political things gets even more nutty.
Edit: I made up a rule on the Amazon basin that said "When people get to arguing over definitions, the argument's over". I guess this thread is kind of drying up.
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)