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I'm sorry if I midled you into thinking that I might care what people think of me. Maybe people should make a list of words they don't understand so I can tailor my vocabulary to support their Morality only pertains to choices. Getting hit by a bus isn't immoral, but walking onto a busy street is. etc. What is good is what is conducive to life. therefore, to live is to act morally. Living requires values, which requires choices. Not every choice helps you acquire your value. It's not unethical to commit suicide under those circumstances, but that is a very rare situation. It's unethical to extent to which a person gives up life, to whatever degree that may be. What's good about being productive? Engaging in self-generating action is required for you to live. (you need a home, food, clothes etc). Death in and of itself isn't immoral. If you're 110 year old grandma dies in her sleep, was she acting immorally? No. why not? Because there were no choices. If uncle Joe shoots himself in the mouth, is he acting immorally? yes. What does what mean? Ask Howard Roark. You know, before any mentioned any of this, I hadn't even thought that it might be considered sexist. When I think of "man", when the term is used generically, I only think of human-kind, men and women. Does anyone actually think I'm sexist? For Christ's sake, my idol is a women. Most of the people I look up to in my life are women. To be honest, I still don't even believe that many people are actually offended. What you've got is a lot of people who think they should be offended becuase someone told them they should be, and a lot of people who are afraid to offend others, also because someone told them they should be. I'm not interested in playing those types of games. Those who "care" enough to complain are only those in certain sects of academia, who've been told that it's politically incorrect. Why would I worry about being politically incorrect in the face of people who I feel don't have a clue about politics? I know you like the word too. It was valid when the quote in your signature was written and it's equally valid today. Philosophy is a science too and perhaps more than any other science, there is a constant need to have a name which can be used to speak of humans generally. There is currently no better word than the word "man". It's caloric, economical, and more powerful a word than "humans". I don't like context hopping. Not that I'm saying that you do it, but sometimes people often protest that others view things "out of context", when in argument. In the context of wanting to know what a word means, the dictionary isn't the worst thing in the world.

I don't care so much if people throw in an appeal to authority here or there, but I have no choice but to point it out if it's the extent of someone's argument. I don't want to have to cite the dictionary, but what else am I supposed to do if someone doesn't know what the word "man" means, or if they claim to not understand, which is what a couple people have done in this thread? Though the word "man" causes controversy, it's anything but complicated, and I assume that everyone in this thread understands that it's a polysemous with a variety of meanings. Anyone who claims otherwise is either lying or illiterate, and none of you are either of those things. Now, I want you to clarify what you mean when you say that the word isn't "correct". For the most part, the word is not accepted in academia, and I never claimed otherwise. I know that. However, that does not mean for a second that the generic use of it is false. As I said before, there is a difference between you not liking a word and whether or not it's correct. Your success as a student depends on your ability to recognize and agree with the bias of the institution. That's fine. I get that. I do, however, disagree with the insinuation that anyone with an educated or experience agrees with your position. Please tell me what's epistemically responsible about removing the meaning "human" from the symbol "man"? Also, if it is inaccurate, what's wrong about the quote in your signature? What's wrong with the quote in my signature? Also, what's wrong with saying "herd of cows". Have I been offending cows for years? What's wrong with saying " flock of sheep"? Should I say "person of snow" instead of "snowman", or "snow human" ? The dictionary defines concepts. Some definitions are more objective than others, but the dictionary really only has one purpose.That's pretty much it. What are these contexts that I've missed?

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This is a lost argument. I challenge you to find any writing guide from a credible academic source, written in the last 10 years, which says the use of 'man' as a generic is good style. You won't. It's bad style, it's sexist, and as Cork puts it: renders women invisible. ;) You're correcting Aristotle now? I'll provide a source for you when you find a writing guide indicating the correct use of the word "dog". Of course, you won't find one. Why not? Because the main "writing guide" indicating the correct usage of a word is called the dictionary. If, by "incorrect", you mean "I don't like it", then the word isn't correct. If, by "incorrect", you mean "politically incorrect", you're probably right

This thread got me googling filter. If anyone hasn't seen it, here's the video "Hey man nice shot" is written about, supposedly. It's Budd Dywer shooting himself in the head. Here It's not too gruesome. It looks a bit cartoony, actually, and surreal.

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What pronoun am I supposed to use in place of "he", and what word noun I supposed to use in place of "man". "Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being..." "Man is the only living species that can transmit and expand his store of knowledge from generation to generation" "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. " "Man is by nature a political animal." What's wrong with those quotes? I wonder why they don't like the word "man". " UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK Col

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I'm not going to change the English language because you have trouble interpreting it. The word "man" holds too much cognitive economy to have its meaning changed. You can't just remove the meaning "humanity" from the word "man" for the same reasons that you can't remove meaning from the word "********". Also, what' sexist about trying to destroy the word "man"? To answer your question about why I think people don't use the word, I'd say it's because certain people have a disdain for humanity. Certain people have never thought about what a man is, therefore they have nothing to say. In our culture, in philosophy of our day, most consider "society" to be an irreducible primary. Let's do "what's good for society". "Man" is a dirty word, especially to altruists, socialists, feminists, etc. Maybe it's because they've never met a real man. Rand wasn't a "conservative". You don't have to argue anything you don't want to. But if you are going to argue, and if you're going to make claims about Rand, at least supply your source, which is probably from the internet, made by people who've never read or understood a damn thing she ever said. What's wrong with suicide is the act of giving up life. That's what makes it sad. That's what makes it wrong. If you want to live life, what's wrong with destroying your life? Destroying your life is the greatest act of immorality, since morality is what is required to live, and abstaining from thinking is the best way to achieve it. You don't stop being a human being when you're diagnosed with cancer, so I don't understand your question. Your life still requires ethics, because you could choose to crawl into a hole for two days, or to do something productive.

I didn't ask if someone should have the right to kill themselves. I asked what's bad about it, and you still haven't answered. What's wrong with succumbing to depression? I don't know what to tell you other than the word "man" is a part of the English language. Its is not synonymous with "male". To give you an example:

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That's right ;) You earn major points for not liking LOTR & RH, though. Ron paul is definitely not the worst candidate ever, but he's still evasive and stupid like every other politician. He supports individual rights sometimes, so I like him, sometimes.

Mr. President, thank you for fighting for the rights of every American. What are those rights and where do they come from? "i duNNO!! I'm a libertarian!!!"

I want to make it clear that Rand didn't say that a woman could not be president; she said that a women should not want to be president. The issue is psychosexual and philosophical, and it involves an understanding of masculinity, femininity, romance, psychology, Rand, Rand's ideas, etc. Frankly, the thought of having to type out an explanation for this scares me, as I can't even get an answer to why suicide is bad. And I haven't thought a lot about this issue myself, but to give it to you in a nutshell: Because women by nature are submissive, it is against their nature to lead. That doesn't mean they can't lead. It means it is against their nature, physically, sexually, psychologically. I'm simply not willing to spend that much time on this topic. It is cumbersome even for those who've read Rand's work, and who are interested in philosophy, never mind someone who has not read anything she's ever written aside from the aforementioned quote, which, incidentally, is easy to misinterpret, especially if you're a feminist, or a leftist/post modernist, which is why it's the first thing mentioned by every rand Hater, and probably why you've read it somewhere. Did you read the whole thing? "Man" is the DEFAULT. It's not gender specific and it never was. If you want me to start using the word "human" in place of "man", you need to give me a reason. I'll quit using the word man when you quit using the word woman (which an actual gender specific word, unlike "man"). "I want to fuck the human with a vagina". Since you refuse to define morality, I'm trying to make my point without using the word "morality". Why is it wrong? That's the whole point. What is it that's shameful about suicide? Why is it a shame? No doubt, you'd have different feelings about a family member who died in a car accident, and someone who shot themselves. Why? What's wrong with it? What's bad about it?

Toad, I was replying to: "Some societies actually embrace the practice[suicide]. So to say that there is an underlying consistent ethics would be wrong." there is no consistently practiced ethic, but that doesn't mean that ethics doesn't exist. The fact that everyone acts different is precisely why we have ethics. some cultures believe in oppressing women. Does that mean that isn't always good for women to have rights? If the words "ethics" and "morality" are confusing things, and I think they are, just forget about them. Answer this question: What's wrong with suicide? You too, Bizud. If you don't think there's anything wrong with it, then we've recognized the chief differnce between your philosophy and mine. That's why I ask the question. I don't belong to the Huwoman race. If you want to type "man or woman" excessively, be my guest! And I already know you don't know anything about Ayn Rand, so I won't ask you to back up your statement that she was sexist.

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The sad thing is that he's not trying to look like the type of person who chooses a crapping cartoon as his signature. So what is it about me that he hates? Even if he's just trying to annoy me by pretending to be jealous, what does that say about him?