[MD] So cometh MOQ, what next?

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[Arlo] 
> one of the maladies, as I call them, of the modern paradigm is 
> the commodification of people into expendable resources....Hence people can be 
> treated as chattle, disposed of and used as if they are no better than 
> "slightly intelligent beasts of burden".
 

4/210,
I think we've had a similar discussion before.
On the historical side, I think people have been treated as chattle whenever someone could get away with it.  It's not a modern malady as the history of warfare or fuedalism shows.  In fact, I think things are getting better.  People (especially women) are seen more as ends & not just means.  See the Geneva Conventions on warfare & the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
On the liguistic side, you see language as constraining the possibilities of what we think.  I see language as providing for the maximum possible ways of thinking.
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