Own Your Values Linguistic Cheat Sheet

Humans communicate and think in symbols - at least generally. Changing the associations one has with words can be an effective way to push oneself into a different way of viewing reality.

Instead of	Use	Comments
Need	Want or Required	If it's something you want, say want. If it's something that's a prerequisite of something then just say that (or required). If it's a prerequisite of something you want - stick with want.
Have to	Want to, am expected to	You don't have to do anything except die.
End a sentence in good, bad, right or wrong	Define what it's good, bad, right, or wrong for
Use good or bad as an adjective without context when talking about people or actions	Again, say what it's good or bad for
We (generally)	We (specifically), otherwise list or group name	Only use if you're talking about your linguistic center and your subprocesses OR if you're talking about something that pertains to both you AND the person you're talking to. If you're recalling something that included a group but not ALL the people you're speaking to, use the name of the group, list the individuals in the group, or tell the story differently.
Intrinsic value	Discontinue entirely
Have a right, has a right	Respect their ability, respect his/her ability
Have a duty, has a duty, have an obligation, has an obligation	Is/Are expected to, has/have promised to, has/have agreed to
Is moral / is immoral	follows/violates the insert moral system or rule here (e.g. NAP)
Is responsible / has a responsibility	Is causal, is blameworthy, is praiseworthy, is expected to	Causal for factors which are not necessarily faulty and which are not subject to social suasion, blameworthy or praiseworthy otherwise. Only use the term to refer to ability to be changed by social suasion.
Responsibility	Is expected to	Unless talking about the ability to be changed by social suasion
Group names (emotionally)	Group names (actually)	Only use group names to include people who are by definition members of that group, and never for the purpose of attaching obligations or rules unless those are part of the definition of the group. For instance, Americans could only be used to mean either people living in North or South America or people living in the U.S. It couldn't mean U.S. patriots, U.S. nationalists, people who believe in the U.S. Constitution, etc.
Natural right	Discontinue entirely
Value (n)	Value (v, adj) generally	Try to avoid most uses of the noun version of value. Some are acceptable, but try to use the verb or adverb versions.
Value (market)	Marketability, market value
Valuable (general)	Valuable (specific)	Any uses other than "able to be valued (in many circumstances)" is incorrect
Free market	Internalized market	If you do actually mean free market (unconstrained by any regulations including libertarian proscriptions), otherwise state what you mean explicitly