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Any loaded or moral term will tend to lose meaning over time getting weaponized in the process. The loading won't get lost, just its reference, the behavior it's pointing. So for example, "Christian" still sounds positive in the US even though what it means to be Christian has become increasingly vague. That happens to all moral terms. They get bleached and thereby exploited.
By Jeremy E Sherman. Ph.D.Any loaded or moral term will tend to lose meaning over time getting weaponized in the process. The loading won't get lost, just its reference, the behavior it's pointing. So for example, "Christian" still sounds positive in the US even though what it means to be Christian has become increasingly vague. That happens to all moral terms. They get bleached and thereby exploited.