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The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive: “Euphemisms such as ‘slumber room’... abound in the funeral business” (Jessica Mitford).
A euphemism is a euphemism; like taking a mirror and reflecting the mirror into another mirror. The image of the mirror reflects the image of the mirror which, in turn, reflects the mirror image of the mirror image. The last image is difficult to see.
I intend to conduct a similar experiment on-line with Skype (The whole word can talk for free).
http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html
Imagine having so much freedom that freedom costs nothing.
Try imagining that and one might actually see the image of peace as the last image; so insignificant as to be almost imperceptible.
Here is the experiment envisioned.
Click on the Skype Icon. Dial up my friend in Brazil. I see him talking to me on my computer screen. He has a PC camera mounted to his monitor aimed at him while he talks.
I need to get a PC camera too.
We aim each PC camera at the computer screen and place our talking heads between the camera and the screen so as to provide a profile image for internet communications.
I see my friend as he talks to me. He can see me as I talk to him.
The digital image travels from California to Brazil and from Brazil to California.
A display appears on my screen that includes my friend talking and me talking all at once.
A display appears on my friends screen too.
Will the world blow up?
Will we tear the fabric of universal time and space?
Perhaps no one will ever know what will happen.
Holocaust
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Holocaust
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
Words defy meaning.
How about experimenting on human beings to see how much suffering one can endure?
How much does the experimenter suffer?
Probably not much since the experimenter has an ace in the hole.
Euphemism or Falsehood
A means to an end.
Conscience
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=conscience
One might lose Consciousness.
con·science( P ) Pronunciation Key (k
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- The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong: Let your conscience be your guide.
- A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience.
- Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: a person of unflagging conscience.
- The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
- Obsolete. Consciousness.
Driving along on a road in Iraq one might see in the distance a turban wearing individual who happens to be all alone and obviously lost.
One might get in range and shoot the rag head.
Why?
9-11
Are "we" doing any good 'over-there'?
Why yes. "We" are building schools for all those fatherless children.