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Originally Posted by Cory1000
Its not always the last resort of those unable to hold up their end of a debate. sometimes it is used to show emphasis on something.
For Example:
My car got hit by a fucking shopping cart. That's not a debate, that is someone showing how fucking pissed that there car was hit.
There's a difference...
Have you ever heard This..
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Dude, cussing is
always used for emphasis.
As suggested elsewhere, Mark & Jason are not Congress, we are not the Virginia House of Burgesses, this is not the New York Times, and you are not Howard Stern. The discussion is not about your right to free speech, and I am not trying to censor you. My point was that
most people can modulate the their language. There aren't any posters here who are shopping carts, but I do know that there have been some nasty threads where they were swearing at each other. I just think that's uncool. Since you brought law into it, remember that when you join a forum, you ostensibly are agreeing to the terms and conditions as outlined by our hosts. That is a contract. We have our end of the bargain to keep up. Pornography is not illegal, but would be inappropriate on this forum. Now do
you see the difference?
The way I see it, if people were more reasonable with their language, this thread wouldn't even exist. I'm for self-control over censorship, the same way that you might have the right to drive on the road, but the responsibility to do so in a safe fashion. You sound as though Mark and Jason send people to the Gulag or something for swearing.
I will say this, though, I think I'd find it entertaining to read some of the back and forth posts of which I do not have first hand knowledge because of censorship. Even if cuss words were replaced with #@%&GGRR etc, I could figure out what was going on...Anyway I do swear at home on occasion, but somehow typing gives me a few more crucial milliseconds of self-control.