Some people use language "in the ordinary way." Some people — and many message-boarders find this amusing sometimes — enjoy parsing literally, debating the meaning of "is" or the placement of a comma and so on. (There is a comma that negates the meaning of the Second Amendment in the original text, though some dispute about whether it's a comma or a smudge!)
But pedants need to jump on one bus or the other!
@Metaphor; You spent dozens of posts in one thread insisting that what everyone thought your meaning was, was not the LITERAL meaning of your actual words. Now you're trying to jump on the other bus, with
. . . . . . . . everybody knows that "slavery makes everyone poorer" means "slavery does not make everyone poorer."
Yes, yes, blah, blah; don't bother to repeat your insipid claim about "ordinary use of language."
The point is that you've hoisted yourself on your own petard. Jumping back and forth from the "ordinary language" bus to the hyper-literalist bus is just ... inconsistent.