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Originally Posted by (JD)
Interesting thread. I have my own views ... but was thinking...
if telling one lie makes a person a liar
and killing one person makes a person a killer
doesn't committing one evil act make a person evil?
Regardless of the reasons (I'm remembering "The Abuse Excuse" by Alan Dershowitz) behind any definition, is the definition itself mutable?
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Not sure telling a lie makes one a liar, it just makes someone that tells lies. Killing a person just makes someone a person who has killed.
As someone that has experience abuse I find it much more rewarding to drop labels and see behind the action, if we never look behind the action then history is more libel to repeat, if we find out why someone has felt the need to lie, perhaps we can prevent that person having to lie?