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To: mph who wrote (18859)	5/16/2006 3:23:41 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543302

So if it isn't used to refer to the mentally ill, then far from being "sanitization" for anything real, it's just an epithet. You might as well go around calling people "stupid" and "moron" then (unless we're going to accept stupid and moron to be indicative of some real standard of actual IQ). " I strongly suspect that people who use expressions like BDS to refer to ideas borne of knee jerk reactions would not call an mentally impaired person "deranged." I don't find name calling defensible.