Transcending Moral Polarity

I have a moral issue with the terms "good" and "bad", because not only are they so ambiguous as to be less than helpful, but also the idea that something is either good or bad is inherently flawed. To think that something is evil merely for the sake of being evil is narrow minded and just wrong. And there's the other side of the coin. No one, and nothing, is ever truly good.

So, rather than blunder our way through the day bluntly firing off crudely fashioned statements containing or implying inherent moral polarity, we must use more appropriate adjectives. Not only does this fix the fact of assuming that something is good or bad, but it makes it a more accurate statement, and, more importantly, it puts emotion into your sentence. For example, if you where to say; "You looked good today.", how is the person receiving the compliment sure that it is, in fact, a compliment? People through out the words "good" and "bad" all the time like there's no tomorrow. But if you where to say; "You looked fabulous today.", they automatically understand that you're being sincere (as long as you adopt the right tone of voice), because now you've taken the time to select a specific word from your vocabulary for the sole purpose of complimenting another person, and that makes them feel good.

Of course, there are drawbacks. If you're texting, and you use a positive adjective to compliment another person, you have no control over how it's read. That person can read it as sincere or sarcastic, or any shade in between, and there is very little you can do to change it. If you type; "You looked fabulous today.", fabulous can be inflected to either actually mean fabulous, or to be derogatory and detrimental. Only one of the reasons I dislike communicating through text (although, the advantages pretty much break even with the disadvantages).

So, you should use words other than "good" or "bad". But everything depends on context. One slip of the tone, and you can find yourself being extremely degrading rather than helpfully uplifting.