Daremo posted...
You've kind of gone around my point there.
What is the benefit in saying, "You are fat and unhealthy.", over "You have an excess of fat, and that's unhealthy."?
By the same token you've gone over my point. You said people can use a word that in itself is not pejorative, but a malicious actor can use said word to be pejorative. That literally applies to literally any sentence and any word you can think of. Literally. Including the 2 examples you gave. Both example sentences you gave can contextually be used maliciously, including the one you implied/think was nicer.
The point being, context is one of the key foundations of speech. Yet, some most definitely take it upon themselves to do everything in their power to ignore context to warp someones words/sentence to be malicious when contextually it was not.
It's not beneficial to go out of ones way to find a way to be offended or look for reasons for others to be offended while throwing context to the wind so we can look for new ways to be offended.
Because again, no one in this topic is suggesting to walk up to an individual and randomly call them fat or randomly tell them they're fat.
So to answer your question in lesser words, context matters. Neither examples you gave are inherently malicious or more beneficial to choose. Both can contextually be used maliciously.