• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s in the definition. Murder is the killing of one human being by another. Vegan fanatics try to shame everyone else by calling it murder but it just makes me laugh. They try so very hard but just sound silly.

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      1 year ago

      pedantry is an incredible argumentative strategy. Truly unstoppable. Why think critically when you can read a dictionary instead?

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        1 year ago

        Dismissing the truth as pedantry doesn’t change the fact that it’s the truth. Your beliefs don’t change reality.

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          Using linguistic prescriptivism to shut down an argument and calling it “the truth” and “reality” to avoid thinking about what somebody means when they say a word is… certainly something

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            Fanatics try to expand the meanings of words to make their message more inflammatory in an attempt to bully and shame people who don’t agree with them into doing what they want. It’s a standard play from the extremist playbook.

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              People use words in varied ways to make rhetorical points and get people to consider things they might not have otherwise. Oh no! I’m sorry that cognitive dissonance is stressful