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I refer to my parents' aunts and uncles as though they were actually my direct aunts and uncles instead of the "great" variety. Additionally, I refer to my old babysitter's siblings and aunt and uncle because, when I was young at least, this particular babysitter pretty much treated me as her son.
I had no idea that this was a common practice...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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