You give me your stinky opinion saying mine stinks.
Well, you're wrong of course.
A claim to "evolution" meaning "change" is simply an excuse for anything. Evolution is about selection and I'm the big bad wolf eating your baby children: you go extinct. That's evolution, not some cheesy anything goes resignation.
Evolution is not about "selection", you're referring to a biological concept known as natural selection. I'm sorry to tell you, the evolution of a system simply means the development of the system over time. Feel free to check a dictionary. You should look up "homonym" while you're at it.
For someone so bent on controlling the English language, you should put more time into understanding it.
Laws, social norms, peer pressure, karma moderators are ALL telling you what to do.
The only reason "evolution" is thrown around is bc of natural selection. To use evolution as a term is to imply it.
And natural selection applies to cultures, behavior (see reinforcement learning, selection of responses by consequences) etc.
There is no freedom anywhere.
A planet where I can try to do anything I want, only stopped if what I am doing is being prevented by someone physically stopping me, such as an officer or concerned citizen. As per my post.
> The only reason "evolution" is thrown around is bc of natural selection. To use evolution as a term is to imply it.
https://ncse.ngo/defining-evolution
> Initially, the Latin word evolutio meant the unrolling of a scroll
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolution
> 2a: a process of change in a certain direction (unfolding)
Your claims are easily falsifiable. The modern use of "evolution" in biology evolved after the word was already in use to mean change. You have no authority to police the use of the word.
You go to work, like everyone else. You are civil to people - because you choose - and keep your job.
Your freedom is a false illusion and can be boiled down to statistics, your zip code, age, IQ, etc.
Even your advocacy of uncaused agency is, itself, fully caused, reinforced, shaped and controlled.
And I never said evolution is exclusively a reference to natural selection- it's cache is due to the prestige of such ideas. Your sloppy usage and weak defense of such use doesn't prove anything.
I can police English if I am as free as you say I am. That's "my choice".
> I can police English if I am as free as you say I am.
You can try. How is that working out for you? Your original comment attempting to police language was flagged and died, looks to me like you were politely shown the door.
Flag away.
The comment police are stopping me from "doing what I want"?
Gosh.