Very good one, iCanay. Yes, I suppose it is. And we should find a new saying for it. Any suggestions?

In the meantime I will keep using the phrase ‘kill your darlings’, if only because people who have never thought about these issues will recognise it as a phrase in storytelling.

But I will add a remark about non-violence with it whenever I use it. So people who never thought about this issue, will start thinking about it.