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Some words often suggest/or mean different things to different people.  To make a 
sail-boat "fast" has often ment "to tie it down and make it nearly stationary".  To
a race-car-drive to make a race-car "fast" would mean to make it capable of moving at
faster-speeds on the race-track.

To Egocentric people the word "good" is likely to mean "pleases-me", and the word
"evil" is likely to mean "offends-me".

To the CEO  of a large corporation "good" is likely to mean "net-profitable" and the
word "evil" is likely to mean "net-loss" to the "bottom-line".

To Domineering-Bullies "good" is likely to mean "submissive" and "evil" is likely
to mean "offensive", "rebellious", and/or "resistance".

To Managers and Perfectionists "good" is likely to mean "conforming" and "evil" is 
likely to mean "NOT-conforming" and/or "rebellious.

To Terrorists "good" is likely to suggest "destructive" and "evil" is likely to 
suggest "failed-bomb".

To True-Lovers "good" is likely to suggest "integrative" and "evil" is likely to 
suggest "disintegrative".

To Mathematicians "good" is likely to suggest "accurate" and "evil" is likely to 
suggest "not-accurate".

To Artists "good" is likely to suggest "beautiful" and "evil" is likely to suggest
"ugly".

To the extent that we are isolated by the differences in what words mean an/or suggest
to us; we cannot communicate and/or cooperate well with each other, and we are likely
to be trapped by alienative-conflicts which we cannot understand and/or mitigate in
any gracious way - - - because "messages-sent" are not received as meaning the same 
thing as the"message-sent" ment to the sender.   The sender and receiver may have no
clue that there has been a Mis-Communication - - - and be offended when each other 
behaves in apparently incoherent and offensive ways that make no sense at all.  They
may conclude that each other cannot be trusted, honored or worked-with in any 
reliable way; and that open-and-honest-dialogues must be avoided in order to be 
"secure" = "safe" = "invulnerable" through the use of superior defenses.