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Kacarott@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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