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Yeah, I guess. I'm not saying a paper cut is a good thing, I'm just saying it's better than a broken femur.
If your stance is that everything bad is equally the worst thing ever, that's your perspective and I hope it serves you well.
I'm not saying worst thing ever. I'm not catastrophizing. I'm not saying equal. They are different things. I'm saying unacceptable. I'm saying extent, though extant, is irrelevant to the question of acceptability.
This is an important point that keeps coming up in a thousand places and a thousand ways. The fact a femur can be broken does not make the papercut meaningless, acceptable, or excused any more than the fact someone can torture you and your loved ones for days on end could mean it's acceptable to 'only' break your femur. If we try to scale measurement of harm in relation to 'what might have been,' attempted murder is completely acceptable as long as it fails, successful single murder is negligible as long as mass killings are possible, mass killings are fine as long as genocides are possible, and so on, and so on... You do not want to live in a world which takes the idea of 'at least it's not...' seriously.