Comment by quuxplusone

> It's weird that you would argue "people won't change" at the same time as you point out how word meanings change.

"People won't change" does not imply "people don't change"; "I observe change" does not imply "I cause change."

Dante's Paradiso XVII.37–42 (Hollander translation): "Contingent things [...] are all depicted in the Eternal Sight, / yet are by that no more enjoined / than is a ship, moved downstream on a river's flow, / by the eyes that mirror it."

> Also, specific people might not change, but they do retire/die, and new generations might have different opinions.

Yes, that's certainly the case. "Science advances one funeral at a time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle