Using your logic, there is a “connection” between rape and name calling in that they are both abusive behaviors. I still wouldn’t repeatedly call them “comparable,” and I’d make a point of clarifying that, even if I say they are “related” in that they’re both abusive behaviors, that one is orders of magnitude worse than the other, not just that one is “worse” than the other. Saying that “they’re comparable but one is worse” doesn’t really express the drastic difference, and makes it appear as if they’re similar in your eyes, in the same league/class, and I’m not the only one here saying that. Related and and comparable aren’t interchangeable here IMO. Tee ball and Game 7 of the World Series are “related” in that they’re both baseball, but I wouldn’t say that they’re “comparable but one is bigger.” They’re so different that they’re different beasts entirely, even if they’re “related.”