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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 pr

“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.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
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.
- cutemonster 4y ago
  Or "feeding 2 cats with one bird"
- forgetfulness 4y ago
  That's really problematic because scones are not part of a bird's natural diet, and makes them subservient to the charity of humans.
  - TeMPOraL 4y ago
    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.
- ticviking 4y ago
  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.
bell-cot 4y ago
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. /s
cutemonster 4y ago
They don't know about Unix and "Killing a child process"? Promoting violence in the family And "daemon processes", being just generally scary
ekianjo 4y ago
Yeah its like they decided all imagery in language is BAD. This is just the beginning when you are down this route.
tanseydavid 4y ago
>> It’s a figure of speech. Apparently Stanford is not teaching their students the definition of words like figure-of-speech and cliche.
socraticmethod 4y ago
> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it. Do you eat them?

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

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.

cutemonster 4y ago
Or "feeding 2 cats with one bird"
forgetfulness 4y ago
That's really problematic because scones are not part of a bird's natural diet, and makes them subservient to the charity of humans.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago
  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.
ticviking 4y ago
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.

bell-cot 4y ago

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. /s

cutemonster 4y ago

They don't know about Unix and "Killing a child process"? Promoting violence in the family And "daemon processes", being just generally scary

ekianjo 4y ago

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

tanseydavid 4y ago

>> It’s a figure of speech. Apparently Stanford is not teaching their students the definition of words like figure-of-speech and cliche.

socraticmethod 4y ago

> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it. Do you eat them?