Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:12:11PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:41:10PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > New users are nearly always dismayed at the apparent difficulty of > > > things, and should be warned that they will need to do some work "under > > > the hood" in order to get what they want. The honesty can start > > > immediately, it doesn't necessarily have to be a goal. > > > > > > When people think in freedom, think in rights. And rights are > > something that some "authority" give or steal. > > > > Multinationals think in what is good to sell. People like > > "comfort" over all. The taste of people is fantastically > > represented in the Wall-E movie; to "arise and walk" is not > > considered a right. Futurist?, my father, thirty years ago, to > > go to the corner to buy cigarettes, took the car; today he has > > half body paralyzed by an hemiplegia, and perhaps one day to > > arise and walk will not be a right for him. > > You're confusing "capability" with "right". These words are not the same > because their meanings are not the same. > > I have a right to speak my mind, but if cancer requires the removal of my > jaw so that I can no longer speak, I no longer have the capability of > speaking at all. These are different things; a capability can be taken > away, but a right cannot. > > This is what is meant by "rights" in the context of ethics. The law has > its own jargon with its own definitions. The way you use "right" here is > very much nonstandard for any context of which I'm aware, which means > that before you can have a meaningful discussion with someone that > involves such use of the term "right" you need to get them to buy into > your definition of their own free will and agreement. Otherwise, the > discussion will be nothing but disagreement and/or misunderstanding. > > So . . . please start with the denotative meanings of words, consider > your audience, and use words accordingly. If you wish to use a term > differently than how it is understood, make sure you clarify that fact up > front. If others refuse to go along with it, find a different term to > use that can better convey the meaning you wish to convey. >
If everyone followed your advice here, Chad, then 99% of the arguments on the Internet would evaporate. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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