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Are you saying you reject the use of "we" for any group that doesn't include you?
Yes. If I wasn't one of the group members, I shouldn't be included in the collective noun "we".
I did nothing to detect triboelectric discharge, I assure you. I have very low awareness of the thing. Why does the reporter assume I did anything? Why should I be bathed in the glory (or infamy) of it?
Similarly, when people say 'the UK has sent weapons to so-and-so', I object to being included, as if I had anything to do with it.
I think it's the false attribution, the welling of pride that I guess I'm meant to feel and the casual duplicitous use of language (lying, misleading) that bothers me.
Why not relay the truth of the matter, when its perfectly simple to do?