Your intent!

This week symposium, I found it interesting when Adrian opened it with the question of intent. This takes me back to my other course lecture, International Human Right Law lecture on genocide. It is mentioned in that lecture that genocide is determined by the intent of a person, in this context, the intent to destroy, harm, kill, etc of a group.

For me this coincides with what Adrian mentioned in his symposium. Intent determines the context but not meaning. Meaning is so hard to shape since the way a person perceive something depend on how a person is being brought up and how their cultural knowledge. An example which Adrian used was the word for ‘Boy’. The word does not have meaning just because what it was, rather to more what it doesn’t represent. Which is why we know that boy represent male or young male or male homo-sapiens, because it sounds boy, not coy, soy, or other -oy endings.

(Intent Matter, picture from Scrapbook of Truth)