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I've always thought that that kind of speak is to make it look like their writing is really precise - if you state something in easy words, you're inviting others to attack you on semantics. "X is bad" "Well what do you mean by bad?..." "X is an atrocious display of awfulness" "Sure."
That's certainly a problem with Aldo Leopold.“When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver; he could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker; he could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.”