Words to be avoided in Polite Conversation

[Excited Penguin]

This is what the OP said.


Emphasis mine.

That is encouraging the banning of words under certain circumstances. I was responding to that.

No, not necessarily. "Restraint" does not mean "banning". Seems to me you're jumping to conclusions. This is a typical knee-jerk reaction among young people these days, whenever hot-button issues are mentioned, or alluded to. No sense of subtlety.

Your speech will pretty much always be restrained in one way or another, depending on the medium you use to convey your messages - by the laws of physics and your own self-preservation instincts, if nothing else. Get over it. But don't worry, nobody's trying to put a muzzle on you - no one, who realistically could do that, really gives a sh*t about what you have to say...

Next time you choose to criticize my replies to other posts, make sure you carefully read what I'm responding to at the very least.

Yeah, well - if you're going to express yourself in vague, naively idealistic, blanket statements, you can expect people to put similar amount of effort into deciphering what you mean.

Restraint can mean banning. Banning is a form of restraint. Like I already said in another post thereafter:

 In addition to that, OP's phrasing was a bit ambiguous. I, in turn, responded unambiguously enough to address that part of his post, that is all.

Meaning I chose to make sure I expressed my views on the matter, lest the OP meant restraint in the way he could've meant it, namely as banning.