sounds like you are trying to say that kidnap and rape are magnitudes more horrible than being horribly murdered?
that’s a bingo. Kidnap, imprisonment and rape are worse, in my opinion, than just being murdered.
And it’s hardly an isolated incident:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case
en.wikipedia.org/…/Kidnapping_of_Tanya_Nicole_Kac…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch
en.wikipedia.org/…/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard
cbsnews.com/…/elk-grove-kidnapping-rape-assault-s…
just a few moments search. I’m certain there’s far more. <barf>
realbadat@programming.dev 6 months ago
When those are just the precursors to the horrible murder, I’d have to say yes, magnitudes worse.
Because on one hand you get brutally murdered, and on the other you get brutally raped and brutally murdered.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Kacarott@feddit.de 6 months ago
So to be clear, when something is magnitudes more than something else, that means on the scale of 100-1000x more, or even higher powers of ten. If rape + murder is magnitudes worse than murder, then definitionally rape alone must also be magnitudes worse than murder.
Of course multiple atrocities are worse than a single atrocity, but talking about one being magnitudes worse than the other, to me seems to immensely downplay the seriousness of the other.
For example, to me “murder is magnitudes worse than petty theft” would be an appropriate use of the word.
realbadat@programming.dev 6 months ago
I’m aware of the definition of the word, yes. And I stand by what I said.
Kacarott@feddit.de 6 months ago
Then I think I’m not understanding something here, maybe you can explain (asking genuinely). Because it seems to me that what you said doesn’t make sense with the definition of the word?