Re: The Japanese language makes me commit sepuku !!!

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:54:48 GMT

Sean wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>
>> Louise Bremner wrote:
>>
>>> necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cindy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rafael Caetano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean <seanpantsholland@telus.pants.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe, but around here, if someone walked into the local Right
>>>>>>> to Die Society office with a bloody great sword, offering his
>>>>>>> services, he might get turned down.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course. One should at least clean the blood off the sword
>>>>>> between assisted murders, don't you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's right. Technically, you are supposed to use a sterile
>>>>> sword each time to prevent a possibility of infection.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't it George Carlin who pointed out the absurdity of
>>>> sterilizing the needles that they use to kill someone by lethal
>>>> injection?
>>>
>>> You wouldn't want those doctors to get into bad habits, would you?
>>
>>
>> Which, if true, begs the next question: Do you need someone as highly
>> skilled as a doctor to stick a needle in someone's arm for the
>> intention of killing them (and wouldn't that violate the Socratic
>> oath in any event)? I seriously doubt those executioners are MDs.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
> Oh, Jeff, no! Not you too? "Begging the question" was a perfectly good
> philosphical term of art referring, I believe, to including as one of
> your premises the conclusion towards which you are arguing. And now
> people are running around using it to mean "raising the question." It
> is a sad state we are in.

Yes, it's true, language usage changes over time. Live with it, dude.

Jeff

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