Sorry, I don't think I follow your argument. My best interpretation is that you're saying that knives in my kitchen could potentially cut someone, and therefore

Sorry, I don't think I follow your argument. My best interpretation is that you're saying that knives in my kitchen could potentially cut someone, and therefore if I care about the harm caused by terms like "master" and "slave", in order to be consistent I need to care about the potential harm of knives as well. Responding to that interpretation, I would say: 1. I need to take responsibility for the knives in my kitchen in the same way that I need to take responsibility for the words that come out of my mouth. If my knives are cutting people, then I would need to get rid of them. Apparently the use of these words are cutting people, and so the notion of replacing them with less harmful alternatives isn't worrisome to me 2. I would also say that the potential for harm being everywhere is not a reason for me to ignore this specific instance 3. Yes, I do think that the end goal is to change the universe. It's okay with me if the medium of change is small actions, if that's what's available