User blog comment:Imhungry4444/One Piece Chapter 690 Review/@comment-3119203-20121128201050/@comment-3119203-20121129024825

I think that you are overlooking the point of the argument. I like to use the term "destroyed" because it sounds cooler than "lost". I figured that it would be interpreted as "lost by a fair margin", which is exactly what happened to Luffy.