Don Satz wrote:

>I think the best way to settle this is to dump the title altogether, and
>eliminate the word from the planet.  Nobody would be worse off for it, and
>its elimination would be a nice tiny step toward the notion that humans are
>of equal value in the big picture and that each individual is due decent
>respect and no more.

I think it was in 1984 that the dangers of trying to erase words for
concepts that were considered undesireable was explained at length.
Wonderful book, deserves to be an opera some day.

Stirling S Newberry
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