• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Slightly tangential, but personally I have always found this word “humane” quite revealing. That is, it reveals more about the speaker’s wishfulness - and perhaps therefore their political orientation - than anything else.

    Humans are neither good nor bad. They are both, or neither. They are what they decide to be. These words “humane” and “inhumane” as synonyms of “good” and “bad” are pretty Orwellian.

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      17 days ago

      Words have an origin and a definition. Those are not the same thing.