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“Killing two birds with one stone” promotes violence to animals.

I will use this term to my grave and yet I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it.

It’s a figure of speech.

Peta came out with a list of "vegan" idioms. Probably mostly a publicity stunt and some are clunky, but I try and use "feeding 2 birds with one scone" because it's a good pun.

Or "feeding 2 cats with one bird"

That's really problematic because scones are not part of a bird's natural diet, and makes them subservient to the charity of humans.

That's gonna be a fun one to watch if they ever follow up on this reasoning, given that at this point, most land-dwelling animals are "subservient to the charity of humans". Those that aren't are either hiding in few undeveloped areas, or gone extinct.

That is a good pun, and tells me a lot about someone if they've modified their habits of speech that much to avoid speaking like everyone else to project their worldview onto it. I really admire people who are actually wholly integrated that way.

I'm sorry, but "figure" is obviously offensive to a huge number of people, starting with anyone who's ever suffered from anorexia. And "speech" is clearly a slur against mute persons.

Please self-censor in the future, or the Stanford Brain Police will be forced to take appropriate measures.

They don't know about Unix and "Killing a child process"? Promoting violence in the family

And "daemon processes", being just generally scary

>> It’s a figure of speech.

Apparently Stanford is not teaching their students the definition of words like figure-of-speech and cliche.

Yeah its like they decided all imagery in language is BAD. This is just the beginning when you are down this route.

> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it.

Do you eat them?

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