(05-12-2022 01:39 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  By your argument an adult a child and a geriatric are all one in the same, just different stages. I think that’s a flawed perspective, personally. But I’m not making a value judgement as to why you have that perspective or whether it’s a euphemism itself.

They are stages of a human lifetime, a lifetime that starts with the fertilization of a human egg by a human sperm, and ends with death.

I have that perspective because it is the truth. It's just common sense that we do not start out as something else and then magically turn into people.

What would be the euphemism? That I am calling a human a human? Not my definition of euphemism.