I appreciate your feelings based on your personal experience with this terrible disease. I do however feel this reply and subsequent replies on this topic completely unwarranted.
The word cancer has been adopted into the English language to mean an evil condition or thing that spreads destructively.
The article makes no reference to the medical condition, nor the star sign, nor the tropics of.
I don't care much for this article, but the author has used the word cancer in context without belittling the medical condition and it is unfair of you to imply that he has.
Especially since you compare his writing style to one of the most despot genocidal maniacs of our time.
Second, it's not clear to me that you do appreciate mechanical_fish's feelings. His point is that cancer is an outsized, heavy word, and regardless of the author's intent, the word has connotations that neither you nor the author can shake loose from the word.
I chose that word on purpose because of both its semantic and emotional power. Besides, I'm pretty happy that all the critics have been focused on either using the term "cancer" or the swearing at the end, so I guess my points are valid to almost everyone, and you just didn't like the way I expressed them. That sound ok.
The word cancer has been adopted into the English language to mean an evil condition or thing that spreads destructively.
The article makes no reference to the medical condition, nor the star sign, nor the tropics of.
I don't care much for this article, but the author has used the word cancer in context without belittling the medical condition and it is unfair of you to imply that he has.
Especially since you compare his writing style to one of the most despot genocidal maniacs of our time.