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I agree that it's not the same. That wasn't what I was trying to say; I'm sorry if my phrasing was unclear.
The reason I made the comparison is that it's very clear that using "gay" as an insult is bad (because of the severe discrimination you mentioned), and so I was using it as a more extreme example of an insult that refers to a specific group of people.
Using "incel" as an insult is not as clearly bad (because involuntary celibates haven't faced the discrimination that homosexuals have), yet it follows a similar paradigm, hence why I made the comparison.
Why not just use another term, like "radical misogynist"?
I talk to people, I partake in society.
If there's a large amount of people insecure about being born to unmarried parents that I simply haven't encountered or heard of, I'd be perfectly willing to quit using the term "bastard" as an insult, too.
I get that. That's why I made a comparison to the term "gay", which is also frequently used as an insult without actually trying to refer to homosexual people.
I think the literal meaning matters, especially when being a (literal) incel is still something many are insecure about.
That's what makes it different to e.g. the term "bastard". That term also refers to a specific group, but nowadays noone (in the western world) would be insecure about being born to umarried parents.
As long as involuntary celibacy is something people are insecure about, we shouldn't use "incel" as an insult.
That's certainly true, yet I still disagree with the post's claim that cocaine is "no worse than whisky".
If you make cocaine legal, you effectively make crack legal, since the conversion is trivial.
And no, methamphetamine existing does not make cocaine less harmful.
The most abused substance is caffeine.
How often a substance is abused has very little to do with how dangerous or addictive it is.
Fortunately the German constitution prevents people like you from determining others' "right to live".