Ok Nate so profanity is not part of your behaviour. I actually thought that you would see beyond that prejudice. Sure a lot of people do use profanity as you say, but its the intension that is bad then not the profanity in itself. A knife is not necessarily bad, but when used to kill someone it tends to be looked upon as bad.
Please dont correlate profanity with stupidity, that is a grand mistake.
The example given was a general one not specific for this forum. The point with this discussion is that everybody should be free to use the words that reflect their state of mind, the more words there are to choose from the more accurately one can express oneself.
I think children should be exposed to profanity, it is a natural part of society and if it wouldnt be so tabu it wouldnt be as misused as it is today. Use of pre-emtive measures is generally bad, the principle of hitting someone because you think he WILL hit you is craziness. It is the difference between anarchy and order. That is how society looked like long ago, since then we have learned(western hemisphere,ok not the USA or Israel) that those ideas can only be used when objective evidence is provided as proof of intent.
I am talking about the principle not the practical perspective you put on this matter Nate.
I have never understood moralepolices, how can one put ones own opinion of morale and try to force it on others. Morale is a soft variable not a hard one, there are no absolutes.
on the profanity filter. I have only met polite people here and people named d-i-c-k
are discriminated. S-h-i-t
is a very useful word by the way which I would like to be able to use. I think users who utilize too much profanities would be better dealt with by a warning
. I somehow dont think that will be neccessary....ever judging by the character of newtloving people
