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by fyloraspit 1120 days ago
If the modern western world needs more of something, it's definitely euphemism
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The use of "lost the war with cancer" here is also a bit of a euphemism for "died from cancer".
To be fair, going from "lost his battle with cancer" to something else is at worst breaking even in terms of the western world's euphemism count.
True. But the war-based ones are far too normalized. What's next, The War on Violence? Or how about The War on War?

Words create worlds.