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07-19-2003 12:38 PM |
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Originally posted by superb
Well, an insult is a means to express a negative opinion about something. It has meaning for the person because it allows them to show others how they feel. Therefore, insults do serve a purpose. Whether this purpose is good or bad is subjective.
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Incorrect. An insult is not defined as necessarily negative - for something to be an insult, it must be offensive, by definition. Thus, you could insult someone by saying "My, you look nice today!" when in fact they might have mud on their face and clothing.
As for them serving a purpose, I doubt that telling some random person on the street "F--- YOU!" would serve any purpose at all, other than offending them. I believe you are mixing up "insult" and "criticize."
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But as I explained, insults do serve a purpose.
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Disproven.
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Whether this purpose is good or bad is up to you to decide.
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Irrelevant.
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Right and wrong isn't the issue here and maturity by definition does not deal with such things. In simplest terms, maturity is the state of being fully developed (and in this case I suppose it would be mental development). No definition of maturity addresses abstracts like right and wrong so anything you associate with maturity is subjective..
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More mental development would give someone the mental power to simply shrug off an offensive comment, would it not? Right and wrong is not at issue here, as you said. :)
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There you go again with the abstracts. What is normal?
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In this case, he refers to stereotypical. Normal was not the best choice of words.
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I suppose that's your interpretation of normality. This normaility you describe does not appear to be the status quo. In a perfect world I suppose senior citizens could be like that, but in reality many are not. I'd dare say the majority of them are not. This is besides your point though.
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I'm sorry your experiences with grandparents have been other than nice.
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You seem to be saying that no matter how mature you become (though I would NOT say that seniority = maturity as you imply with your example), you can never fully mature.
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His post nowhere implies that you can never fully mature - it implies that someone who is more mature would not be calling someone else "immature", becuase they would be wiser than to do so.
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The problem here lies on what you consider to be mature. Standards would have to be set for this to be completely true. Otherwise you are just putting a subjective meaning to maturity. What I consider to be mature may be immature in your eyes. So basically, mature has an objective denotation, but a completely subjective connotation. The reason for this being that while the definition says the state of being fully developed...what you consider to be "fully developed" is entirely subjective.
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Regardless of who defines mature as what, do you not agree that objectively, someone with more mental development would be able to shrug off insults directed at him/her? And would you also agree that when one reaches a certain stage of mental development, it would become unnecessary for them to label other people as "immature"? |
