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Well, you don't control language. Language is language as it's used.

Furthermore, the whole "hacker is the good kind, no the black hat kind" screams "no true scotchman" to me. Lots of black hat's self identify as hackers.



My understanding of the No True Scotsman fallacy involves changing a definition during an argument in order to hold on to some assertion.

This is not the same thing as a person feeling that a particular word should have a particular meaning.


The problem is the person seen as "changing a definition" could very well have had the second definition in his mind all along.




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