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Two reasons given to justify punishment [18] is that it is a measure to prevent people from committing an offense - deterring previous offenders from re-offending, and preventing those who may be contemplating an offence they have not committed from actually committing it. This punishment is intended to be sufficient that people would choose ...
Some people believe that terms should be avoided if they might hurt people; others hold the listener responsible for misinterpreting terms used without harmful intent. [citation needed] For example, crazy should be avoided in describing persons or their behaviors, but is less likely to cause offense if used as an intensifier as in "crazy speed ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
"I think that one of the smallest actions we can do towards creating equity in our time is making our language more equitable," Kelly Wright, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan who ...
About 500 people read a version of the story that was in favor of the school merging with another school, presenting three arguments supporting the move and one neutral point. Another 500 people ...
OPINION: Discussions about race, racism and anything to do with whiteness get stalled when we have to coddle white people in their feelings. The post Selective offense and ‘not all white people ...
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrime is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling Ingsoc party. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of The Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the ...
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