(September 23, 2016 at 8:32 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 6:54 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: No words should be banned in any manner, period. Free speech all the way. That is my position on the matter.
I don't think anyone said anything about banning. The OP clearly is talking about politeness, which doesn't mean avoiding words because they're forbidden, but avoiding them voluntarily, in order to avoid causing offence. Sure - free speech guarantees you some freedom to offend in certain situation, but then other people are also allowed to think less of you for it.
+1
If I'm trying to have an above board, intelligent conversation with someone and they suddenly let loose with a string of expletives and they call some stranger walking by a fucking bitch - I would surely make a mental note of that. And I would judge them as rude and/ or unstable.
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