You seem more than a little defensive here...
I'm certainly defending the truth, yes.
It's not a matter of "agree" or "disagree". It's the facts. You can accept the facts, or you can deny them.
Contraceptives, and their use is not sterilization no way, no how.
So you chose th epath of denial.
I don't care how loose you want to define the term.
Fun Fact:
I'm not defining the word. I'm
using the
existing definition.
If I was making up my own definition, then your argument would have some merit, but I'm not. I've cited the definition directly. I've demonstrated beyond a doubt that I am using it ni a way that matches it verbatim (you even agreed by pointing out that the statement I made employing the verbatim definition of the word was a true one).
The fun thing about definitions is that you can test to see if they fit by replacing the defined word with the definition verbatim.
for example:
"The Ethiopians were temporarily sterilized by these injections." becomes "The Ethiopians were temporarily deprived of the power of reproducing by these injections."
That test proves my use of the word to be correct. I conveyed
exactly the same meaning in
both sentences.
Common usage of the term means something
People misuse words all the time in "common usage", that doesn't change their meaning.
For example: Ironic being used to mean coincidental is incorrect, but more people use it that way than there are people who use it correctly. Am I supposed to not use the word ironic correctly simply because other people are ignorant of its meaning?
and my impression is that you are using the term in lieu of the term contraceptive to make the bad situation Israel has been doing up until now seem worse than it is.
Your ignorance of what a word means has no bearing on my use of the word. I've been
very clear about what I mean and about why I am using the word. I've also been
very clear that the
only way Israel
might have done something wrong is if there was no consent granted. Even then, Israel will only have done something wrong if it was something that the government or government officials imposed, rather than the acts of some criminals who were under their control.
In fact, I've been very clear and adamant about pointing out that such irrational emotional connotations as you suggest I am employing serve no purpose but to distract from the real issue at hand, and that it wouldn't matter to me if the sterilization was via injected contraceptives or if it was a permanent surgical procedure, the
only thing that matters is consent.
The problem here is that you are dutifully ignoring that which
I am saying and focusing on your
own interpretation of the word "sterilization". Don't do that.
If you were using the word correctly then there wouldn't be any issue with you use of it....
That can't possibly be true since you yourself have accused me of using it in an "inflammatory" way for using the word in a way that adheres perfectly to the dictionary definition of the word verbatim.
Agreed. For what its worth I don't think that Isreal's policy was a correct one in this matter.
Ironically, I'm leaning toward the idea that Israel's policy was fine and that some
individuals enacted the policy in an incredibly immoral way. I think that a general policy to provide free birth control to people is actually commendable. I don't think it was executed all that well, but the Israeli
government itself doesn't really seem to be engaging in anything malicious here.
