[4399] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: badwords
adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 8 02:15:22 1994
[in response to woof's comment about curse-words conveying violence]
I think that their being considered violent is a direct result of people
using it in situations of conflict/violence because it is a taboo.
To grant the words themselves violent-power, is a mistake. People ought
to be desensitized to such "profanity". When it's not taboo, it's
nothing at all, nothing to worry about, and certainly nothing to censor.
