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To: mph who wrote (18825)	5/16/2006 2:59:17 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543273

It's not PC. It's simple manners- or "P"- for politeness. I don't accept that manners is a PC topic- because then people who don't like "PC" can get away with being rude, and think they are being rude for noble political reasons. I don't buy that. People often confuse bluntness and rudeness, or use the idea of "honesty" as an excuse to be rude, and hurtful. We see it all the time on SI. Have done it myself- it's a very easy thing to do. There is "sanitizing" and then there is just being rude and nasty, in order to be rude and nasty. I think you can call an idea what it is, without calling someone else names- even if a person really is "deranged", we do not go calling the mentally ill "deranged", - not if we are polite people. So even unsanitized, we don't even call the truly mentally ill deranged. We say someone has a mental illness, don't we? If our relative has a psychotic break, we don't turn to our neighbor and say "My relative is DERANGED." Or maybe that's a class issue. That is not the way we talk about people in my family, and I've certainly never heard a doctor utter the word.