I am reminded by a gripe by C.S. Lewis about people who wanted to use "Christian" as an adjective sliding towards just meaning "reasonably nice", instead of a descriptive term for someone belonging to a particular belief system. His point was that it was better to define someone as a good Christian or bad Christian than let the term stand in as a form of approval of its own.
I feel somewhat the same way about words like "writer" or "art". Just because something is bad art doesn't mean it isn't art. Just because someone is an unpublished writer (or, for that matter, a bad writer) doesn't mean they aren't a writer, if they're writing.
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I feel somewhat the same way about words like "writer" or "art". Just because something is bad art doesn't mean it isn't art. Just because someone is an unpublished writer (or, for that matter, a bad writer) doesn't mean they aren't a writer, if they're writing.