[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Any time you hear the expression
“ needs to be addressed” ( or similar) you should know with perfect certainty you are talking to a liberal. This is the rhetoric of someone who thinks that there is a giant problem, that Society should Gear Up and handle it, and most likely, you are part of the problem, and you need to be spanked for your guilt. In other words, it’s a problem, it’s somebody else’s problem, the problem is most likely you, and government needs to step in and handle it. It is a purely socialist expression.

[RandFan]

That is something I didn’t notice... “addressed” by the State.

[alexander_busek]

Any time you hear the expression “needs to be addressed” ( or similar) you should know with perfect certainty you are talking to a liberal. This is the rhetoric of someone who thinks that there is a giant problem, that Society should Gear Up and handle it, and most likely, you are part of the problem, and you need to be spanked for your guilt. In other words, it’s a problem, it’s somebody else’s problem, the problem is most likely you, and government needs to step in and handle it. It is a purely socialist expression.

What I find most deceptive (and hence most despicable) about the expression "needs to be addressed" is that it suggests that something / anything must be done (by the All-Powerful State, of course) - without specifying what.

Regards,