Originally Posted by
Rune
Why would I deliberately misinterprate your meaning? What an asinie assumption. I started the thread to gain a deeper understanding.
You choose to act as a guardian of history, I choose the convienence of a powerful vocabulary. Maybe when I am wiser I will feel more akin to your idea, however to think that an occasional use of a weighted word in a verbal jousting match among idiots is going to influence future generations of scholars from detecting the horror of Hitler's Germany seems weak reasoning at best.
Nah, you chose to put the importance on "certain words" and then assign that same meaning to what I said, drawing it out of context and deliberately misapplying meaning.
I'm good with that, I just don't think it is either honest or deep.
Do you believe that the history of the holocaust should be diminished by making the words commonplace without the impact of the history?
I don't stop you from using the words, I just take the opportunity to teach people of the actual history so that the history itself will not be diminished by making its use cartoonish.
It isn't historians that need to be reminded.
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