Even though abortion and animal rights are the two obvious applications, the interpretation that first came to my mind when reading the post was political correctness—I mapped “tic-tacs suffer when eaten” to “women/minority groups are significantly harmed by such-and-such uses of language”. I guess because heated discussions on this topic arise more often in LW than on the other ones.
Even though abortion and animal rights are the two obvious applications, the interpretation that first came to my mind when reading the post was political correctness—I mapped “tic-tacs suffer when eaten” to “women/minority groups are significantly harmed by such-and-such uses of language”. I guess because heated discussions on this topic arise more often in LW than on the other ones.