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What if governments couldn’t create cute names like MAID?

I know it seems silly that a cute name would make something more likable because it shouldnt but i think probably it does, and what is the defense for having them anyway?



Downvotes but nobody can explain why we have cute palatable name for a government initiate related to killing people.

We don’t have one for execution. Wouldn’t it be absurd if somebody coined an acronym for it like WOAP?


We do have one for execution, obviously: it's "execution", not "killing".

"Killing" by itself doesn't accurately describe what MAID is, because it's not just ending someone's life, but doing so on a consensual basis after establishing that they are sound of mind and have a good reason to desire that.


But it’s also shifting the Overton window and normalizing making it banal even.




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