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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Your approach was and continues to be a complete failure. You can triple down and fail again or you can choose to try something different. Do you want to talk or do you want to walk away? Those are your only two options at this point.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

lol