I've had a look back at the comments about the username 'agentorange.' I can't find anyone who wrote asking 'agentorange' to change it, some wrote (like me) that the username prompted unpleasant memories of the past, a couple of clarifications were offered as regards the well known photo of the little girl and a suggestion was made that if 'agentorange' as an individual was doubting the continiued use of his or her username it was explained as to how he could change it. I changed my username once, it was easy to do.
I'm one of those people who believes that being 'politically correct' is an important skill to have. My interpretation of being 'politically correct' that its about being accurate with the language that we use, not a bad thing to aim for in my opinion. In our modern, highly competitive world, especially for the young perhaps, accuracy with language could mean the difference between getting a job, or a career, or not? I wish I'd had this skill when I was younger, when for me it mattered most, but I didn't.
In the 50s, I was bought up on a farm, my mother became so worried at seeing farmers dipping sheep in all sorts of chemicals and pills, pods, lotions and injections being pumped in to them and into other animals, that one day she announced that we as a family would no longer eat any meat! At the age of 74 I still don't.
My brother lived in a cottage on the edge of a farm and I remember when they had to close every window and door (on the instruction of the farm owner) when the fruit spraying tractors came through the orchard at the end of his garden. About ten years later my brother died of a cancer which spread slowly throughout his body and his wife died of cancer three years later. We'll never know of course but as a family we will always wonder if breathing in these farm chemicals had anything to do with it?
I suppose my point is that we, as members of the public, have little or no idea what is being done in the world that may, or may not harm us.