This most important of words has become terribly over used. You can say you love pizza or love a song or love Fridays but that is really just liking something. While you can argue that you can tell what is meant by inflection wouldn't it be better to have a word that just represents the depth and breadth of loving your children or parents, spouse, boy/girl friend, friends or even your community or country? A word that represents more than a passing feeling but translates into a commitment of mind, body and soul.

*coming soon.

It is almost but not quite an oxymoron. Since there is no governing body that supercedes the autonomous authority of any national government or multiple of national governments, whether you agree with the rational for going to war or not, the term legal or illegal simply does not apply. 

Ok, so maybe I'm being a little uptight about this one but every time I hear a politician or commentator say "We need to grow this or that" it makes me wince. You could argue that it is not altogether wrong but it is such a juvenile term and is so non-specific it doesn't define what the actual goals are.

While in general tolerance is a very good thing it has also become one of the most abused words in the English language. It's a nicer way of saying "to put up with." Taken to the extreme it means apathy; To look the other way, not get involved, fail to stand up to, and fail to protect. It's a favorite term of people who want to get their way regardless of the negative impact on themselves or others.

It has become a bad thing to discriminate. It's the effect of narrowing the defnition of the term to refer to a specific set of circumstances. Correctly used the term discriminate means the discerment of qualities and differences between things and to use that information to make judgements and decisions. It is an important life skill and to supress it in our thought processes is to intentionally reduce our ability to think. Great effort should be directed towards discriminating based on good criteria. Thats the essence of critical thinking. For example lets examine the words of Dr Martian Luther King jr who said "judge me not on the color of my skin but on the content of my character." He did not say don't judge me. He said judge me based on useful criteria. People commonly mistake the bible as saying don't judge when it really directs you to not judge unjustly saying essentially the same thing as MLK. This is not limited to being discriminating towards people. It is important to be discriminating in almost every facet of your life. Choosing the right books to read, food to eat, church to attend, politicians to support, art to appreciate, music to listen too, clothes to wear, people to hire...etc. There is no good or viable rational for not engaging your intelligence when making choices.