“I suspect I would start to attach that same meaning to any code phrase” and “I think that even talking about either using a code phrase or to spell it out inevitably pushes toward that being a norm” are both concerns of mine, but I think I’m more optimistic than you that they just won’t be big issues by default, and that we can deliberately avoid them if they start creeping in. I’m also perfectly happy in principle to euphemism-treadmill stuff and keep rolling out new terms, as long as the swap is happening (say) once every 15 years and not once every 2 years.
“I suspect I would start to attach that same meaning to any code phrase” and “I think that even talking about either using a code phrase or to spell it out inevitably pushes toward that being a norm” are both concerns of mine, but I think I’m more optimistic than you that they just won’t be big issues by default, and that we can deliberately avoid them if they start creeping in. I’m also perfectly happy in principle to euphemism-treadmill stuff and keep rolling out new terms, as long as the swap is happening (say) once every 15 years and not once every 2 years.