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“consideration to my fellow human beings”.

Because your fellow human beings are so profoundly stupid as to not understand that “delete” and “kill” have the same semantic value in that sentence?

If you are going to argue for word replacement it should be for stylistic reasons (rhyming, alliteration, humour, etc), or semantic reasons, as in actually changing the meaning of the statement.

Changing the wording of statement, while retaining the same semantic value, does nothing to reduce offense when the semantic value is what would cause offense.

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DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Because your fellow human beings are so profoundly stupid as to not understand that “delete” and “kill” have the same semantic value in that sentence?

No, because people could be traumatized by suicide and get a reaction every time they hear the word. I compare your argument to refusing to stop blasting off crackers around war veterans, it’s obviously not gunshots and vets are not stupid enough to mistake them for gunshots.

If you are going to argue for word replacement it should be

No, I argue just the way I like.

Changing the wording of statement, while retaining the same semantic value, does nothing to reduce offense when the semantic value is what would cause offense.

I’m not trying to reduce offense, I’m trying to be considerate. But it seems that’s an unknown concept to you. I see no point in communicating with you further, good bye and I wish you a life as nice as you are.

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- jasory@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  “I compare your argument to refusing to stop setting off firecrackers…”
  
  Which would be in error because they are disanalogous. There is a substantial psychological difference between word substitution, and a reflexive reaction to similar sounds, that are then evaluated to be different later on. Just because it seems instantaneous to you, doesn’t mean that the individual does not actually believe they are under fire even momentarily, can you say the same for someone reading the word “suicide”?
  
  “I argue just the way I like”
  
  Which is logically unsound.
  
  “I’m trying to be considerate… something you don’t understand.”
  
  All you are doing is patting yourself on the back over something that doesn’t matter. You may think that you are helping people, but you simply aren’t.
  
  “A life as nice as you are”
  
  Thank you. I think you are confusing refusing to pander to idiocy, with being mean. You can be an extremely beneficial person to others without endorsing every single view or action they make.
  
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