No sneer intended, but did we really need to go round this again?
Alas, this is precisely what I was thinking about your post in the first place.
Assuming bad faith on other people's part tends to lead to bad feeling. Even when it occurs to me you may be acting in bad faith yourself, I try hard to keep that out of my writing, because I may be wrong, and if I am, accusing you of something you didn't do in no way helps the situation.
If you want a harmless word game, you can certainly have one. Just come up with a starting example that is not also a hot button issue for you and the people around you.
You can even still have a harmless word game; it's not like you can't post again (though you might give it a week or two for the sediment to settle, and think of an example involving, oh, say, ladybugs (birds?) or ash trees or something else that doesn't make people mad.)
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Alas, this is precisely what I was thinking about your post in the first place.
Assuming bad faith on other people's part tends to lead to bad feeling. Even when it occurs to me you may be acting in bad faith yourself, I try hard to keep that out of my writing, because I may be wrong, and if I am, accusing you of something you didn't do in no way helps the situation.
If you want a harmless word game, you can certainly have one. Just come up with a starting example that is not also a hot button issue for you and the people around you.
You can even still have a harmless word game; it's not like you can't post again (though you might give it a week or two for the sediment to settle, and think of an example involving, oh, say, ladybugs (birds?) or ash trees or something else that doesn't make people mad.)