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> - Touchy metaphorical language like "slave replica"

> "submit" ("Depending on the context, the term can imply allowing others to have power over you.")

In both those cases, the problem is when it applies to a person, because enslaving someone or having someone submit by force is obviously bad, but there's equally no problem with enslaving a computer or submitting a form, even if you have to force it into a jammed letterbox.

The obvious next step is banning cut, kill, brand or maim, because that's what bad people did to innocent victims; never mind that you can cut paper, kill viruses, brand a product or describe an industrial accident.



Kill considered harmful. Kill -9 doubly so.




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