JoshuaZ comments on Something's Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 September 2010 02:24:36AM 3 points [-]

The point of tabooing a word isn't to replace it with a <censored> mark. The point is that it forces one to expand on what one means by the word and removes connotations that might not be shared by all people in a discussion.