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Which has fuck all to do with the subject at hand, which was the relationship between abortion and crime.
by rsheridan6 15y ago
Which has fuck all to do with the subject at hand, which was the relationship between abortion and crime.
- ajju 15y agoLet's try to keep this civil.
- rubashov 15y agoRandomly screaming "racist" is the height of incivility.
- ajju 15y agoAgreed that the ad hominem implication to the commenter was unnecessary.
- rsheridan6 15y agoI am. Vaguely threatening to label another commenter a racist for citing an argument by Steve Sailer that had nothing to do with race was far less civil than anything I said.
- ajju 15y agoYes I agree, his point that there are better sources could have been made without the ad hominem implication. I also think profanity doesn't help civility.
- rsheridan6 15y ago"Fuck all" is just a slightly course way of saying "nothing." It's not an insult directed at a person. pg himself has used the word "fuck" on this board [1], so I assume it's not necessarily proscribed. We're all adults here - at least I proceed on that assumption. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766387 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1766387
- ajju 15y agoI myself use profanity from time to time in in-person discussions with people I know, so this may seem a bit hypocritical. The reason I try not to do it online though (or in person with strangers) is because I have marked that when you use profanity with strangers (especially online) it tends to make the discussion more rancorous because people focus on the profanity instead of the content. It does not seem to matter whether it was meant as an insult, or simply as an "emotional multiplier". I have certainly realized that I used do it, so may be it's just a bad data point, weighted heavily! So that's my perspective.