Make the world a better place

[Phyna4]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

[Die_empty]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

Thank you for these few tips on how to address people in an appropriate or more friendly manner.
But apart from using these friendly words, how you treat this set of people is more important. If you address somebody well and don't give him the right support, it makes less sense. We should support does that are struggling with drugs by giving them the right counsel. They should not be treated like outcasts or nonentities. Some of them are suffering because of bad company or wrong decisions. Like in my country, substance users are classified as criminals. The physically challenged population is suffering from discrimination, and we must help to give them a sense of belonging. They must be treated equally and not be pushed aside because of their conditions.

Recently a university student committed suicide due to the wrong treatment he suffered from other students. He was intimidated and ostracized because he misappropriated less than $120 of the student union fund. He killed himself because of how he was treated. My point is that we should move further from speaking rightly to acting rightly.

[Phyna4]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

Thank you for these few tips on how to address people in an appropriate or more friendly manner.
But apart from using these friendly words, how you treat this set of people is more important. If you address somebody well and don't give him the right support, it makes less sense. We should support does that are struggling with drugs by giving them the right counsel. They should not be treated like outcasts or nonentities. Some of them are suffering because of bad company or wrong decisions. Like in my country, substance users are classified as criminals. The physically challenged population is suffering from discrimination, and we must help to give them a sense of belonging. They must be treated equally and not be pushed aside because of their conditions.

Recently a university student committed suicide due to the wrong treatment he suffered from other students. He was intimidated and ostracized because he misappropriated less than $120 of the student union fund. He killed himself because of how he was treated. My point is that we should move further from speaking rightly to acting rightly.

you are very correct.
Demeaning words can have a negative impact on people by causing feelings of hurt, anger, or insecurity. They can also contribute to a culture of discrimination and marginalization. Using derogatory words can harm an individual's mental and emotional well-being and can also lead to further discrimination and marginalization in larger social and cultural contexts. In addition, it can also affect the self-esteem, self-worth and the overall mental health of an individual. It is important to be mindful of the language we use and to avoid using demeaning words.

[Frankolala]

I appreciate these polite manners of addressing people by using the right words. Just as Die_empty said,the way we treate people and use harsh words on them should also be avoided. When all these are put together and practice in the society, there will be less suicides and much love in the society.

Words that we say to people due to their actions,knowingly and unknowingly can affect the person psychologically,which can either lead to the frustration of people or their happiness. Words can also kill not only weapons.

[Alisha-k]

I don't think there is any polite manner of addressing one who is either a drug addict. It is when the issue is addressed that a solution will come up. Calling the victims by their problem might not stigmatise them especially if it comes with a helping hand and the moral and emotional support is there to guide through the healing process.

[Queentoshi]

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation.

This is very true; we should practice empathy.

It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

For someone who you have seen that is willing to want to change, using the proper description of a "person struggling with substance use" is appropriate especially when talking about them to someone else.  

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

Calling people disabled makes them looks inferior, and other people superior to them. That is not 100 percent correct. Some people who people call disable are even more hardworking and doing better at what they do than people with no disabilities. Calling people "differently abled" sounds better.

[Jet Cash]

I don't agree with all this clap trap about using euphemisms to save the feeling of some people. A person who is addicted to drugs is a drug addict ( and that includes things like paracetamol). A person who is morbidly obese is obese and not "big boned", you serve them better by trying to wean them off sugar, seed oils and other damaging "foods", and getting them to exercise. If a person loses a leg, then he is handicapped whatever you call him. You will do more good by helping him to lead a full and fulfilling life, than by pretending he has grown another leg by changing the description.

The euphemism that really annoys me is " a person of colour". That is incredibly elitist,  and implied that the person is a member of an inferior species. "Black" is a simple description of skin colour, and has no relevance to intelligence of social worth. In fact many "white" people seem to spend hours in the sun trying to become black.

[BADecker]

^^^ Right! But "nigger" is a terrible term, mostly because it is inappropriately applied. There are way more white niggers than black ones, right?

[Doan9269]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

Thank you for these few tips on how to address people in an appropriate or more friendly manner.
But apart from using these friendly words, how you treat this set of people is more important. If you address somebody well and don't give him the right support, it makes less sense. We should support does that are struggling with drugs by giving them the right counsel. They should not be treated like outcasts or nonentities. Some of them are suffering because of bad company or wrong decisions. Like in my country, substance users are classified as criminals. The physically challenged population is suffering from discrimination, and we must help to give them a sense of belonging. They must be treated equally and not be pushed aside because of their conditions.

Recently a university student committed suicide due to the wrong treatment he suffered from other students. He was intimidated and ostracized because he misappropriated less than $120 of the student union fund. He killed himself because of how he was treated. My point is that we should move further from speaking rightly to acting rightly.

Helping people does not have to be our financial capability that will triggered ys giving to others, sometimes money is not everything, that little advise or recommendation one can give may go along wsy in solving people's problem, but if you're in the best position to help when you're financially bouyant then do it with all deligence without hesitation, sympathy is a good way to assume ourselves in the same shoe with the person in need and this will help us in discharging the best we could deliver towards helping others in need and in doing so, this world could be a better place for a living.

[rahmad2nd]

Does it help the world be better, the answer is no. Every country has different differences as well as its culture. in my country, if i were a fat man, they would call me fat and that's fine. this is inversely proportional to western countries. there in the west, to ask someone when you get married, is an act of being offensive. in my country, it is commonplace. the question is not to hurt someone or offend them, but rather to motivate them. because in my country, marriage is an inseparable part of the culture.

Even as you say in this thread, that fact of replacing it with more polite terms, it doesn't help them at all.  in fact, that is what happened. however, as humans who want to learn. I am of course very aware of cultural differences and I can learn from differences and place words not to offend or demean someone with terms like the example you gave.
To be honest, it doesn't help them at all, but maybe it does more good than it hurts.

[Newlifebtc]

Let me just inform you that many people this present time how fair character and their character is Eva or different from other people that are there is somewhere else use somebody and it pleases the person and there is some words to use on another person and the person find it very wrong or very insulting so it depends on individual difference or the person I believe that what wrong me cannot run another person that is the main thing that I have to understand in this my comment

[Dewchim]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

You can only use this beautiful phrase if the person in question is willing or trying to stop drugs,  some people are even proud to be a drug addict they don't even want to stop because they believe it makes them smart

[Wolfblood200$]

We are gradually losing out on what makes us humans and that is giving out love without being bias to race ,beliefs  or locality  ,

We should  think about the betterment of humanity in all we do,  and if what we do won't encourage life, then we should decease from such act or idea ,
Thanks

[Ludmilla_rose1995]

Offensive words and less demeaning alternatives:

There are certain words that shouldn’t be used in the description of people or certain situation
 
It is offensive to refer to someone as a “drug addict” the proper term is a  “person struggling with substance use” or a “person with substance use disorder”.

“Drug addiction” in itself is also said to be offensive and is mostly being replaced with “Substance use disorder”

It is offensive to use the term “disabled person” is offensive. A better replacement can be a “differently abled person”.

When you want to make a reference to a mental health issue you do not refer to the individual as “a crazy person” rather a “person with a mental health issue”.

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

I understand, you mean it's good to invite people to do things that are in accordance with what you wrote on this topic, but mental improvement like this can't be done by just one or 10 people, you need invitations for teachers to educate students and also the role of the government to educate all people through the media.

[BADecker]

I understand, you mean it's good to invite people to do things that are in accordance with what you wrote on this topic, but mental improvement like this can't be done by just one or 10 people, you need invitations for teachers to educate students and also the role of the government to educate all people through the media.

That's exactly what is happening. Government is training the teachers how to teach. Government is instructing the media how to teach the people. What do the people get? All kinds of things that are destroying them, like:
- the Covid vaxx that is killing and maiming a thousand times more people than the simple Covid virus ever could.
- WOKE, that is destroying the family and moral values around the world.
- Fighting against Russia, that is threatening the world with nuclear war.
- The US/world banking system that is ripping the people off in several big ways.
- All the government argument propaganda so that people think that we need more government.

History shows us that the people who ignore god - or attempt to fight Him - ultimately are destroyed when they continue to do so. We need more acceptance of and fear of God for making the world a better place.

[Lordhermes]

Have said it on several occasions that you can't make the world a better place,when ur nation, state, LGA, Community and family are all in crisis. We can only make the world a better place when we start from the family level. The family is the very first place to get it right first before thinking of the world.

[Ebede]

To make the world a better place I think that what will happen is for credit a lot towards particular place you are and that particular place you are should be your own world because there is no how this world that can be ever played provided that thing human being is in existence or woman spirit is living around the world so that is no way that human being can live into this world and he still make the world a better place

[Strongkored]

When talking about someone who lost their life through suicide you don’t say “committed suicide”  it is less offensive to say “died by suicide”.

Hope this helps 😄

Will changing it affect anything? because the person has died and no longer hears anything anyone has to say about his/her decision, and also would changing it lessen the will of many people who were already planning to do it?
Changing the sentence to be gentler and less aggressive might make this world better but it will not change anything in some cases like drug addiction because it will be the same case where he has used illegal drugs which can damage himself.
We can use soft words when reprimanding someone so that he can accept it well so that this world will be better than using offensive words just to express emotions

[Lordhermes]

Changing the world to be a great, peaceful and better place to be , start with everyone one. Some think the Government has the sole purpose for better world.but that's a big lie. We all have our role play for better world, we have learn how to trust each other first then supporting one another in our little way, bfor we can address crime. Because crime begins from poverty and lack of support among people.

[Belarge]

Making the world a better place is not by the sweet words you say to them, it's all about how you treat them, sweet words with bad action is manipulation,

Is not really about the words you use to the describe the drugs adict, all I think that matters ( what did you do to help)?

Lack of help and love is one of the major reasons people feel so depressed and most times leads them into taking their own life(suicide)

In other to make the world a better place we should show love between ourselves, just as it said in the Bible, love your neighbor as you love yourself,

We should always be ready to give a helping hand to people that needs it.

Every one should be treated equally irrespective of your tribe, your religion, your appearance and your ethnic group.