Various terminology
precisions
1) Saying “drug
addicts” does not clarify anything. Drugs are many, some legal others illegal. There
are thousands of drugs in the pharmaceutical vademecum, and people can become
addicted to many of them. So, like so many others, the term is confusing and inaccurate.
2) Cocaine
is not a narcotic, it is a stimulant. Therefore it does not make any sense to
call narcotrafficant to those who buy and sell cocaine.
3) Cocaine is
also often defined as a stupefacient drug. The word "stupefacient” and its
root word “stupor" have two main senses: a) amazement and b) numbness. From
that point of view it can be said that there are numerous drugs that produce
“stupor” in either of the two senses, most of which can be used legally. However,
cocaine is not a substance that produce stupor in any sense.
3)
Femicides are not passion crimes, as sometimes they are described.
They are
crimes of pathological male chauvinism combined with great insecurity.
4) Nowadays
the term “climate change” is used
applied to something new that is happening and can have catastrophic
consequences. In fact, “climate change” always existed. Geology, to a large
extent, is the history of climate change. Therefore, I don't understand what
they mean when they simply say "climate change".
That's all for the time being.

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