Target? Terrifying warfare connotations. Client? Smacks of historical patterns of subjugation (client states of empires). Where does this end? Are we to become

Target? Terrifying warfare connotations. Client? Smacks of historical patterns of subjugation (client states of empires). Where does this end? Are we to become linguistically homeless, evicted from our verbal environment every time someone finds a way to be uncomfortable with it?