Re: Cursing

ZAMM_Phaedrus · Wed, 27 Oct 1999 06:15:55 -0700

"I have seen the replies to the cursing post and
they deeply disturb me(I mean deeply not shallow but
deep.) How can someone post an anti freedom of speech
messege on Internet? Internet was here before you were
even born but somehow you decide you need to
goose-step into someone's world and dictate what you think
should be done."

How was it an anti-freedom of
speech message? All I saw was a reasonable request, with
which I may or may not comply.

And are you doing
a little goose-stepping of your own, by suggesting
that people can't post _requests_ (not orders) for
more polite behavior? (Not that I'm necessarily going
to stop cursing.)

"And this offensive thing.
I find what you(whoever posted it) posted to be
very offensive, a slap in the face of our country. NO,
I will not attempt to give an excuse for cursing
because cursing in a free format(Internet) needs no
excuse."

Didn't George Carlin say that if you were using the
Seven Words You Can't Say on Radio/TV for shock value,
then you aren't saying them enough?

And the US
deserves to be slapped in the face a lot.

"You said
cursing at practise is hardly justifiable, maybe this is
true if you are living in Nazi Germany but in the US
the only justification you need is the first
amendment."

My apologies if this turns into political flaming,
but you've just hit a raw nerve.

It's almost
as if we've developed this silly political solipsism
of individual rights in our country, where we are
actors in a vacuum, and for the purpose of rights, no
one else exists or matters. We do not exist in a
vacuum, and we should constrain our actions while taking
into account how we affect others.

We've also
fallen to the point that we confuse legality with
morality or justice or any other concept of right and
wrong. No one considers anymore whether they ought to do
something, only whether they can. And they complain whenever
they can't do everything they want to do.

"The
only position you take is that cursing offends people
and you should think before you type. Yes freedom has
a tendency to offend people, some people just dont
want to welcome expression."

Well, let me use
my free amendment rights to declare that anyone who
never takes into account other people is an ass. (Of
course, some people I fully intend to offend on purpose.)
I hope I've offended someone.