Re: virus: Re: engagements

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:26:13 -0700


David wrote:

>>Love is consensual mutual exploitation.

Interesting that you chose "exploitation" over the less pejorative, but
otherwise synonymous word "utilization". Why?

>>Of course this kind of statement gets the same reactions as "humans are
>>animals" and "brains are information processors": immediate, indignant
>>denial as if accurately describing something somehow debases it.

And you don't see how you yourself, David, prompt that reaction by choosing
words with negative connotations when you could use other words that are
just as, if not more, accurate and yet emotionally neutral?

>>Why is that? Does reducing the mystery really take away the "magic"?

No, but inserting negatives does take away from the positives.

-Prof. Tim