Saying that for you “cynic” serves the purpose just as well doesn’t signal to me that you update in a way that you see that “sociopath” doesn’t fit.
The problem is not that it’s unknown. We talked previously about this Chapman post on LW and considered the phrasing to be harmful and it dilutes the academic concept of sociopathy and prevents us from speaking about real sociopathy when we lose the word to point ot it.
Saying that for you “cynic” serves the purpose just as well doesn’t signal to me that you update in a way that you see that “sociopath” doesn’t fit.
The problem is not that it’s unknown. We talked previously about this Chapman post on LW and considered the phrasing to be harmful and it dilutes the academic concept of sociopathy and prevents us from speaking about real sociopathy when we lose the word to point ot it.
Sociopath wasn’t good. Cynic isn’t great.
I didn’t want to have to invent a new word, when one was used before in a community, with no replacement. What would expect the term to be?