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[-] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So... Let's say your parents are murdered tomorrow. And the investigators and the news reports just say that they died suddenly on Monday, you know full well that they were actually murdered, they just ignored using the term 'murdered', you'd be totally okay with that?

Those 2 phrasings have the exact same meaning to you?

[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago

It wouldn’t matter because they’d be dead. They wouldn’t be able to feel any which way about it

[-] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

So.. The scenario is about your parents. Does that make it any more clear to you?

It's very clear - I as the living survivor would feel bad if my parents died in an unavoidable and unpredictable and unpreventable accident or say due to old age.

I'd feel much much differently if my parents were murdered.

We should call it murder because murder is the more accurate and descriptive term here.

[-] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So.. The scenario is about your parents, make it any more clear to you?

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