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As an inanimate object, sugar cannot be literally murdering people. It's possible that it's killing people, but "murdering" is both incorrect and unnecessarily
by mrob 10y ago
As an inanimate object, sugar cannot be literally murdering people. It's possible that it's killing people, but "murdering" is both incorrect and unnecessarily emotive language that looks like it's being used in an attempt to bias the discussion.
- cam_l 10y agogoogle literally.. ie. informal - used for emphasis while not being literally true.
- mrob 10y agoThe problem is more the "murdering" than the "literally". Even if you read it as "figuratively murdering" it's still excessively emotive language.
- cam_l 10y agoI would argue that literally here is a modifier to murdering, and in fact both are used here in an intentionally excessive (or emotional if you prefer) in order to underline a point. By all means disagree with the point, but sugar can actually be figuratively murdering people. As an aside, to suggest that someone is using words to bias a discussion pretty much misses the whole point of mounting an argument, does it not?
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