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Annihilate means complete and utter destruction, and it is sometimes used to refer to the overpowering of an opponent in a game. The great thing about this is that you can put any term in there that refers to an act of extreme destruction and everyone will catch your drift, however if you use a...

Well you can accidentally kill someone. You can hit them with a car, you can do it on impulse, it's faster, etc... Rape requires deliberation, it requires an sustained attempt to continue, you (in almost all cases) would not rape someone and then feel regret as soon as you finished. From their...

Well it's precisely because it's always the connotation of the term that changes the way it affects people. When we use the term gay to describe something stupid or undesirable, we are implying gay is stupid and undesirable. When we use the term rape to describe something involving domination...

It is. I will freely admit that perhaps my personal lack of offense has given me a biased view of certain things. Of course it isn't an argument against anything I've said, but it may be significant.

I agree that normalizing something in society will lead to it becoming more acceptable. As you say, the changing of gay people into being a norm rather than a weird outlier definitely lead to the less homophobic society we have now. But that said, I believe the "I'm going to rape you" in...

It's pretty strong evidence though. My life experiences are not particularly easy to understand I think, and the fact that other people can understand is good evidence that people can do the same with others. You could claim my life is so bland that everyone can understand it, but I doubt that...

They don't normalize the actions of rapists. What's next? Do dead baby jokes normalize infanticide? Do pedophile priest jokes normalize pedophilia? No one hears a joke meant to shock and offend and thinks it makes anything okay. Those jokes are specifically funny because of how f*cked up we...

Okay fine, that was a pretty bad example. I'm sure they are out there somewhere though. By I don't think they should be offended. The actual person who was raped, sure, because they won't want to relive the experience, but unless they were there or their life was hugely shaken by the other...

But I could say this about almost literally anything. Someone who lost loved ones in a car crash or was seriously injured in one could be triggered by talking about cars, or someone who was in a combat situation could be triggered by someone mimicking gun noises, and statistically speaking those...

I'm sure in both these circumstances it could be quite upsetting as it would bring back unwanted memories of the experience, but I don't believe that there is a rational basis for claiming that it would have any sort of negative impact on society as a whole. Once again though, I think the...

Okay I know I said I wouldn't respond, but come on, of course it wouldn't be offensive to people who scaled Mt. Everest. If I saw that person who only ever saw a pile of dirt climb a 20 meter hill and exclaim that it was like he was on top of a mountain I'd be fine with it. I'd tell him a...

No they do not have the actual knowledge of what combat is like, but they do understand the basics in theory I would guess. It isn't the same, obviously, but it allows you to make some metaphors and to understand by analogy. This isn't me saying "oh everyone is basically a soldier" or anything...

But that's stupid. I live around people who make gay jokes all the time and it doesn't negatively affect my life because I'm not in a place where being gay is generally frowned upon. That supports my point that jokes by themselves do not create a negative environment because if they did then I...

Being entirely unempathetic is sociopathy. There is of course a ton of middle ground in empathy, but the end result of promoting a lack of empathy would be promoting sociopathy. Of course we can imagine what rape is like to some degree. I think everyone who has heard or even read a story about...

Well My point is that sometimes there are definitely parallels to one degree or another. Saying something is "like" something else is a pretty vague statement by its very nature, even if there is one strong parallel then it can be considered "like" that thing. I don't see how. It's true that...