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> Your MLK example would be more convincing if it actually worked.

That has nothing to do with my example. I don't believe you are really that naive.

adul·ter·at·ed: to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element;

You could have easily looked this up. You are being purposefully obtuse and it's not fooling anyone. I'll call a spade a spade.




It's one thing to blithely talk about the potential for blackmail; actual modern examples in today's "no shame" culture (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070045) would be more useful. A failed attempt at blackmail or worse harms the case you're trying to make.

I could also add "look at the Abscam aftermath" if you think these potential targets are toothless.

And of course I know what adulterated means, I've just never seen that formulation with sex; Google comes up with 4,600 entries, perhaps I'm just behind the times. However I'd use "scandalous", which is in common use, and alliterates.




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