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If you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing ou
by feralchimp 15y ago
If you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing out on knowing a lot of really awesome people for a pretty stupid reason. Then again, your policy does save them hassle, so maybe it's for the best. Penalties offset...repeat first down.
- sofuture 15y agoA lot of really awesome people... with ultimately incompatible value systems.
- vacri 15y agoYou have the cart before the horse. He's not preventing the relationship by using profanity, it's those other people that are preventing the relationship by refusing it due to profanity. It's very rare to have a user of profanity refuse to talk to someone else simply because they're not swearing.
- buff-a 15y agoIf you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing out on knowing a lot of really awesome people No, not so far. Its pretty much a 1-1 correlation. Offended by sounds and symbols => holds irrational beliefs => easily convinced to support abhorrent acts. In fact if I meet someone who is utterly unphased by continuous war, hunger, famine, rape, and torture, then they are guaranteed to be offended by a simple sound and make a huge fucking deal about it.