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Originally Posted by takkaria  If the normal use of the word "evil" is one with tones of judgement or wrongdoing, then it's not the right term to use if you want to be value-free. You can't go and rally at society for it, because society is a nonentity -- individuals are the ones with the association of stigma. By choosing a new word or phrase, you can avoid that.
Language, fundamentally, is defined by those who use it, so using a word how people don't use it makes communication difficult. |
Let's say there is this thing called an Apple.
Some people attach a stigma to Apples of them being tasty, some people attach a stigma that they taste gross.
Since the stigmas are different, should we change the word Apple? Should people who like Apples now call them Oranges?
Will changing the word for Apple make people like them again?
Or will it just confuse things?
You can't control people's opinions by changing language.
Darkwork* will always have a negative stigma to the uneducated no matter what you call it. Society has always considered it immoral to put your own interests above the interests of society.
*aka evil, sinful, bad, wrong, narcissitic, egotistical, ungenerous, immoral, wicked, devilry, satanic, left-hand-path, vamachara, selfwork, selfishness, negative polarity, service-to-self orientation