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> I might consider it a basic human right to use curse words, get angry, and come off as abrasive, and in fact I truly do. This is a common error, but you're m
by chasing 11y ago
> I might consider it a basic human right to use curse words, get angry, and come off as abrasive, and in fact I truly do.
This is a common error, but you're mixing up the idea that the government shouldn't be allowed to penalize you for your free speech and the idea that no one at all should be able to react to you for using curse words, getting angry, or coming off as abrasive.
If I think you're an asshole, I'm perfectly within my rights to not hire you, not befriend you, make fun of you to other people, not invite you out on camping trips, "accidentally" give you smaller slices of birthday cake at company parties, write internet comments calling you a doofus, etc.
- mbrock 11y agoI don't know why you think I made that error. Is it because I said "human right" that you think I was making a point about government censorship?
- chasing 11y agoI read your comment above as saying this: "It's a problem that women are socially punished for being abrasive because I consider being abrasive a basic human right." It is a basic human right to use curse words, get angry, and come off as abrasive. That fact does not protect you from social punishment if you behave in a way that the people around you don't want to tolerate. Nor should it.
- mbrock 11y agoI meant to say if women are especially penalized in an unfair way that hinders them from other basic stuff like career and community. Of course people are free to dislike abrasive styles of talking. But combined with gender discrimination, it becomes a problem. I don't think men should be excessively punished for cursing either, but they generally aren't (in secular societies).