Let& #39;s say you saw someone attacking your trash cans and getting garbage everywhere.

You don& #39;t know what to do and go next door and say "this dude is acting like a lunatic" to your neighbor.

Is your neighbor going to assume you are making a clinical diagnosis of mental illness?

No; also, they most likely aren& #39;t going to care what word you used, because the problem is not your language, it& #39;s the guy literally getting your trash everywhere.

Lunatic is an archaic word that doesn& #39;t hold the power people posit it does.

In fact, most words that are not understood beyond a cultural meaning of "good, bad, or weird" do not have the power people on Twitter think they do.

And everyday people using them does not imbue them with power - particularly so.