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Innocent

How I hate that word. I do not hate it as a word in itself, as I do with the word "clot," but rather because of its use by those trying to prove a point through emotional hooks. They use phrases such as "innocent child," "innocent animals," and "innocent fetus" to assign depth and feeling to their arguments. What the fuck does "innocent" actually mean? You assign it to all these beings, yet it is never once explained what you mean by that. Innocence is defined by lack of guilt, in regard to any sort of "crime, sin, or wrongdoing." Obviously animals and fetuses have no guilt; they don't even know the concepts of crime or sin. If you mean som