Okay. Political correctness bothers me. Here is an example that came to mind for no reason relevant to anything else.
Since it measures time based on the birth of an actual, verifiable person... I find (even in my most anti-Christian moments) the BCE/CE (instead of BC/AD) delineation offensive to my scientific sensibilities. It'd be like... calling Farenheit "the non-metric system." That'd be offensive to Farenheit and his family, students, and, well, fans. Or like PRETENDING that the Celsius scale was based on some ARBITRARY number and NOT the freezing point of water.
Am I the only progressively-minded person who sees this retarded PC fallacy? I mean.... it's almost like telling me that my OWN AGE is measured not based on the day and the year I was born, but by some internationally agreed upon delimiter that HAPPENS to coincide with my mother's not-terribly-brief-or-painless labor. Like... "Hey, so it snowed on April 11th, 1983, in New Jersey. Let's measure time in Erik Martin's life based on that meteorological event."
It's not offensive to Christians... it's simply offensive to SENSIBLE PEOPLE. Sure, if "Anno Domini" seems a little too preachy, I can settle for AC, or AJ, or STBOJON (since the birth of Jesus of Nazareth)... but c'MON people. Call a spade a spade.
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I actually prefer BCE/CE. If we want to go to the most original and first calendar, let's talk to the Indian or Chinese. They have a calendar that precedes the Judeo–Christian beliefs and weird transformation of time and holidays.
Celsius is not really the chemically preferred scientific unit of measure for temperature. It is Kelvin. Still, Celsius is used in some situations (thermometers). However, I'm not sure that too many Americans would think that 25 degrees is warm (because they don't know how to convert temperature).
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