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Re:20 Reasons We Know the Earth Is Spherical by nikdaheratik on Friday June 15, 2018 @01:49AM (#17317764)
1. No, calling someone a moron does not always mean you're making the claim that they either have a learning disability, or are mentally ill.

2. Trying to make the claim that this word is completely innocuous, is very unbelievable unless we are to assume you are typing this from a wormhole into the past before this entered mainstream vocabulary.

3. If you were attempting to use the term in a more clinical fashion, you've completely failed to apply it correctly.

Re:20 Reasons We Know the Earth Is Spherical by posterboy on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:25AM (#17318299)
>Trying to make the claim that this word is completely innocuous

This is where it becomes obvious that you think that mentally ill -- the way you used it -- was completely innocuous, objectively true. Hence I might as well, by your own standards, call you a moron, or at least mentally ill, until the opposite is proven. That is, you might indeed be a Psychologist, and not an impostor, but otherwise your use of the term in a more clinical fashion is likewise incorrectly applied, very very likely. Sure this discussion is a waste of your time, if you are an idiot who doesn't understand "these people". PS: This is fun, blaming other people for their faults,not very helpful, but certainly fun getting a sense of superiority. I'm sure you are trying to say the right thing, but between lack of qualification and even contradicting yourself, you didn't, I'm sorry.