I understand you want to keep it civil here and think it's a great goal but what you're saying would keep us from discussing serious subjects.
When there's context which explains why something that sounds extreme is brought up you should look at the context, not just react to what you think is extreme.
I don't think disallowing thought experiments/hypotheticals is positive.
It's of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it's a thread about animal abuse.
It's one of the problems we run into when speaking up against animal abuse, people call us extreme when we are really just being up front about what happens in reality.
I try to keep it civil and respond matter of fact and explain but it can be hard when you get so much toxicity thrown back at you, all because you stand up against animal cruelty.
Makes some kind of sense, I just feel like it hurts readability way too much to be acceptable.
Like "Norway, Sweden makes energy deal with Denmark, Germany" is very hard to parse, reads like Norway is a place in Sweden and Denmark a place in Germany.
Speaking of commas & "and", I hate that people refuse to use the word "and" in news headlines, they replace it with commas instead and it's just a worse reading experience, I really don't understand why this is a thing.
When people say "gifs" nowadays they don't mean actual .gif files, .gif files are very outdated and barely used at this point.
Gif has just become the term for short videos without sound