The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping into that conversation much easier.
replyIs there a name for this? I think about this all the time. I've always had a theory that some offensive words may actually be persisting longer solely because we essentially calcify their definitions and never allow them to evolve into new less offensive meanings.
replyThis is well researched. See the Werther Effect. Casual, trivial, glamorized, or humorous framing behaves like contagion exposure.
replyThe Werther Effect seems to be all about media reporting? All the reputable sources I could easily find suggest that talking about suicide casually does not inspire it.
replyHow about Rogue-like Linux?
replyIronman Linux.
replyUltimate Ironman Linux: you can't save anything to the disk.
replyThe world is cold and insensitive the majority of the time
replyMaybe you could strive to be better than that.
replyI was honestly hoping it was a linux distro prepacked with euthanasia instructions tbh. But this is still good and funny.
reply"Unalive GNU/Linux"
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