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by untog 5268 days ago
I don't understand how terminology could ever lead you to such differening conclusions.

Maybe I own a cat. It's a great cat. But this morning, I decided that it is actually a fish, and as such, is a failed fish, because it can't breathe underwater. Or maybe it can breathe underwater, because it was a fish all along.

In any case, expecting a change in behaviour just because I changed the name... bewildering.