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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (46722)	1/24/2008 11:28:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542004

You are confusing a desire not to mislabel with saying something "good". You can, of course, conflate the two issues, but I do think you are mixing two unrelated topics. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, but it does seem to me the two issues are separable. If you say Hitler conquered Poland, you aren't "saying something good" about Hitler. He did conquer Poland. Conquering is "good" when we do it, but we don't like it very much when folks like Hitler go around doing it. In that sense it's very much like the word brave. I can't believe you'd read Maher and think he was (or wanted) to say something "good" about the perpetrators. What would be Maher's motivation? He clearly was just concentrating on the meaning of the words. If you look at the meaning, folks who disregard the perils of death and danger (while still being able to comprehend such dangers) are clearly brave. Killers who face the electric chair with aplomb have been described as brave, for example, and if they are, you can see how other negative people might be also.

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