A guided missile is so called because it's a missile equipped with a system of guidance.
A missile is generally a self propelled projectile, but it can also be any object thrown or launched with intent to damage a target, e.g. a bullet or a chalkboard rubber.
I feel very strongly about maintaining this ambiguity.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 19:23,
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^Anyone ambiguous about this strong opinion?
I'd appreciate it if the powers that be made all missiles guided by nature of being missiles so i could be very withering about the inappropriate usage to someone online.
"Oh i think you'll find a rock is very much NOT a mi...", i think nuance and there not actually being a right answer is hugely overrated.
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You are entitled to a little ambiguity too,
in that the act of aiming a throw/launch/fire/impulse/whatever is, in a sense, guiding that object to its target.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 23:05,
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I'm ambivalent about nuanced ambiguity.
On the other hand the effective meaning is really what the receiver takes it to be.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 4 Dec 2023, 23:09,
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