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-24 Post author: hoofwall 12 April 2015 04:03AM

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Comment author: hoofwall 12 April 2015 05:52:15AM -1 points [-]

I suppose I wouldn't want someone incompetent for a certain task to accomplish that certain task but what I meant was, I do not actively hate any of those things I mentioned as distinguished from just the idea of the human.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 12 April 2015 06:04:10AM 5 points [-]

Then why did you use the word "discriminate" when you meant "hate"?

Words may ultimately be arbitrary in some sense, but a language constitutes a consensus mapping of arbitrary symbols to things in the real world, and if you want to have a conversation with someone, it's helpful to follow the mapping. Or worse use the same word for two different things and slip between the two meanings when making an argument, it is even possible to confuse oneself this way.

This problem is not restricted to you, in our culture there is a tendency to do this with the word "hate".