[Riddil]

Erm... Cicero, I apologize, I *really* don't follow your point. There were too many "them", "I", "you", that were chained together, that I couldn't understand why you were trying to say. :-/

Anyhow, I didn't mean to say you SHOULDN'T feel sorry for any one group of people, or all people. My postings weren't about personal feelings... what I was trying to do is to give people an idea about how to change language, to give a better chance to actually get something done.

Consider this example... you've got a coworker that wears too much perfume. You could say, "Hey stupid, how about you stop stinking up the place. You smell like two-dollar whore". If you say that she's unlikely to change her behavior. Even if she does change she's likely to find some other way to "get back you". OOORRR.. you could give a comment that's a little more non-confrontational that may actually effect change.

I'm not trying to sway anybody's feelings. All I'm doing is trying to offer some perspective that the current language being used has become a TOOL for the Chinese government to whip the people in to support of their cause. If you want to make change in China, you can ONLY do that through the people. (Unless you want to invade).

I don't want to change hearts. I don't even want to change minds. I just want to change the language that's being used, so that we can see a change we want, instead of actually GIVING more power to the Chinese authorities.