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Prononymous, rogue demon hunter12/10/2011 5:21:55 pm PST

re: #165 Obdicut

“Disease” is a word with limited utility.

Autism is also a ‘disease’, but if someone starts telling autistic kids “You’re diseased!” then that person is an asshole.

Using ‘diseased’ to refer to people with personality disorders is pejorative, and is a bad slope to go down.

Ok, I agree. The connotations in the language used could be taken in a bad way. They should have used different terms. Maybe disorder or whatever.

But focusing on that makes it into an argument about tone rather than about the truth of the statements quoted. A red herring, IMO.