Replies

Right on in every word.

The attack on language he describes is precisely what we should expect from a group that really has no moral underpinning {It's all relative, anyway}, and to whom redefinition is nothing more than another tactic {It depends on what "Is, Is."}

Dennis Prager:

The tragedy of all this is that when evils are defined down, good people are left verbally unarmed when the real evils present themselves. It is yet another way in which the left, intentionally or not, undermines the battle against evil.

Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !

This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for the perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author all 100% to feel the need to share an article.) I will try not to abuse the ping list and not to annoy you too much, but on some days there is more of the good stuff that is worthy of attention. You can see the list of articles I pinged to lately on my page.
You are welcome in or out, just freepmail me (and note which PING list you are talking about). Besides this one, I keep 2 separate PING lists for my favorite authors Victor Davis Hanson and Orson Scott Card.

One has to ask that question because the feminist left has redefined the word "rape" to the point where, unless you know the specifics, you don't know if a woman was violently forced into sexual intercourse or had engaged in sex that she regretted the following morning.

Or whether it is simply the product of her fevered imagination.

All the left has done is taken Goebbles Big Lie theory and stretched it out a bit.

If you do not have clear definitions of what a word means, torture for example, and what it does not mean, you cannot use it correctly. The Left hates hard, clear definitions. That being the case the word then becomes meaningless. Once the word is meaningless, anyone can ascribe it to any situation.

With that accomplished, the left takes the word and uses it in their greatest pasttime, demagoguery. People hear the word Torture, and think horrible things. However, the meaning has been so cheapend that while headlines scream "Kennedy calls for closure of US Torture Prison in Iraq" the actuality is not what an average person would consider torture.

But most people do not read the whole article. Most only read the headline and come away with the opinion that we are probably using bamboo shoots under the fingernails on the prisoners in Gitmo or Abu Grahib. This process turns people's opinions against the President / Government when they really should not be. It's why the informed people are conservative and the uninformed are libs.

With the current cheapening of the word torture, I could reasonably describe flying coach from NY to LA as torture. I could describe not getting a seat on the LIRR as torture. I could call anything that bothers me torture. The word has lost its power due to the Left's incessant usage of it outside of where it really belongs.