Words as Weapons

 Let's examine what's happened to our language. The words and expressions we use are overblown and unnecessary, intended to incite. We've begun to use words like "sociopath" to describe people for whom such a characterization is clearly inapt. Example, referring to an athlete as one simply because she didn't perform.

This strangest thing about this is the failure of these people to recognize they're willingly supporting and making lame justifications for someone who truly does have sociopathic tendencies.

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