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Re:The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who expos... by metabagel on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:26PM (#29501038)
- People who have found their "mission in life" often can be pretty abrasive about it, alienating friends and former colleagues -- especially when it's a "moral imperative" mission like ending detainee abuse

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Let's call it "prisoner abuse", please. The word "detainee" should refer to someone who is in temporary custody.

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Re:The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who expos... by webmaven on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:43PM (#29505113)
> The word "detainee" should refer to someone who is in temporary custody.

We need a new word for people held indefinitely (technically temporarily, but with practically infinite renewals of a 'limited' term by a compliant judiciary). There will be an expansion of the sort of exigent circumstances used as justification for such treatment.

This seems like a recurring antipattern, as with IP maximalists pushing for 'forever minus a day'[0] copyright terms (which, thankfully, seems to have abated, with works now entering the public domain every year).

[0] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-Decemb...

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