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Post #653386

Author
Gaffer Tape
Parent topic
All Things Star Trek
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/653386/action/topic#653386
Date created
6-Aug-2013, 3:18 PM

I'm not trying to be insensitive, Frink, because I know these issues are personal to you, but I just can't get behind limiting legitimate uses of words with broad, far-reaching definitions just because they have been applied in certain contexts as a shorthand to sensitive subjects.  So, yeah, other words could work as well, but so do these.  Honestly, it's as if someone in a science fiction movie said, "In order to solve the problem, we must bombard it with microwaves," only for someone to chime in, "Why do you want to throw that black box in the kitchen at it?"