Sender: •••@••.••• (Kurt Guntheroth) •••@••.••• wrote >some of us continue to use hurtful and nasty words for >"shock" value thereby helping to keep them alive and well and their use >thriving for those who use them strictly for their hate value. If we did >not use them ...we could >probably wipe many words out of our society's vocabulary in a very short >time. Unfortunately, this is naive thinking and I know it. >Mature adults should be able to recognize >inhumanity to our fellow man and pornography when we encounter it. I can't >help but feel that we need to take some responsiblity for not only our own >actions but those of members of our community. It IS possible to communicate >and express an opinion without using certain words for shock value and >punctuation. I dunno. Looks to me as if you are telling me the way I should express myself. You disapprove of *any* use of certain words, from the highest of motives. I feel differently. You feel your viewpoint ought to prevail and that I should censor myself to conform to your sensibilities. Censorship in a fine suit of clothes. The hard thing about living in the uncensored world is that we have to let other people do things that seem offensive to us (like read and produce pornography). We have to learn to get along with people who are doing things we wish they wouldn't do. It cannot matter whether our objections are religious or aesthetic. People just hate having to keep their noses out of other peoples' business. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You are encouraged to forward and cross-post messages for non-commercial use, pursuant to any redistribution restrictions included in individual messages. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
