Most people do not like this word 'whatever'. Indeed, it is so reasonable and truthful that they care so much, I think. Human are careful beings. They care a lot of things, even a single microorganism they also want to give it a name, eg: Euglena gracilis ~ a type of photosynthetic green protozoa. Thus, they had came out a study since aeon year ago. The study of naming, describing and classifying organisms. And that study is called Taxonomy. The world exist to be between 10 million to 100 million species, about 1.75 million different species have been identified. They said it is important to record the world's biodiversity so that we are able to distinguish between beneficial and harmful varieties.
I'm not saying naming is not good. Naming is really beneficial for us as we are able to identify different organisms and different people to avoid confusion. Over the centuries, human population has grown continuously. Before 17th century, the human population is maintained about 0.2 billions of people. Due to the Industrial Revolution, improved medical, health care and better sanitation has resulted in a population explosion. For instant, the human population has exceeded 6 billions but it is estimated to reach approximately 9 billion by 2050.
Hence, everybody has a name, this is logical and strictly utilitarian. We~as a human, we have intricate emotions: love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, hate and so on. When we name something, we usually taking in our emotions to label it, classify it. Bias and discrimination developed.
We know the prejudice has established over centuries based on gender: male and female. We know the prejudice has existed over the history based on ethnicity and it seems never ends: the Caucasians, the blacks, the Asians. We know the prejudice has implanted over the human chronicle based on religion: the Christians(includes Protestants, Roman Catholics, Methodist, Baptists, and Anglicans), the Muslims, the Buddhists(includes Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana), the Hindus, the Jews. The prejudice based on sexual orientation: the straights, the gays, the lesbians, the bisexuals, the transgenders. We know, there are much more prejudices based on age: the old folks, adults, the youths, the babies. Prejudice based on disability: the blinds, the deafs, the dumbs, the mental retards, the cripples. Prejudice based on appearance: the fat people, the skinny people, the short people, the ugly people. Or even prejudice based on status, behaviours, cultures, ideas: the technophobes, the mysophobes, the acrophobes, the animal phobes, the narcissists, the perfectionists, the clumsy, the poors, the riches, the prodigies, the genius, the fools, you name it......you feel it. But you know there is nothing wrong with them. However, hate crime still exists. Why?
Sometimes, we care so much until we have neglected other things, other people. We may even hurt the person we care and the person we do not care unintentionally. Using whatever is not an excuse for our carelessness, it is a nonchalant and graceful relinquishment. We have given up the control, the clinging of the emotion onto that particular thing or person. We stop...to label them, we stop to make a big fuss over them. We know engage in that kind of trouble is meaningless.
When people ask for opinions, just spare the breaths and say the damn word -
WHATEVER.
